Splashed Things - Couverture souple

Lucas, Leigh

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1968507035 ISBN 13 : 9781968507039

Editeur : BOA Editions, Limited, 2026

Synopsis

Splashed Things is a raw, dark humored, and deeply moving debut poetry collection that examines the chaotic terrain of grief following the suicide of a close friend and former lover. With startling honesty and emotional precision, Lucas navigates the speaker's journey through loss as a woman in her 20s, revealing how grief infiltrates every corner of her life--from the funeral home to a dead-end job, from the therapist's office to the subways of New York City.

These poems search for traces of the departed in unlikely places--the physics of splashes, the history of seasickness, the science of depression--while confronting the limitations of elegy and the futility of trying to contain sorrow in words. Splashed Things is not a neat arc toward healing, but a testimony to the unwieldy shape of mourning and the persistence of love in its wake.

Selected by Maya C. Popa as winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize for its emotional courage, inventive language, and haunting beauty, Leigh Lucas's Splashed Things marks the arrival of a powerful new voice in contemporary poetry. The collection also includes a foreword by Popa, offering a profound and generous meditation on the book's emotional depth and poetic achievement.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Maya C. Popa is most recently the author of Wound is the Origin of Wonder (W. W. Norton, 2022), a finalist for the 2023 Levis reading prize from VCU. Her first full-length collection, American Faith (Sarabande, 2019), was a recipient of the North American Book Prize and a runner-up in the Kathryn A. Morton Prize judged by Ocean Vuong. She holds a PhD on the role of wonder in poetry and her newsletter, Poetry Today, is one of Substack's best-selling featured publications. The Poetry Editor of Publishers Weekly, she teaches at NYU and elsewhere.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: BOA Editions, Limited
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1968507035
• ISBN 13: 9781968507039
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 101
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible