Spoken in the Dark: Poems, 2018-2020 - Couverture souple

Cushing, James

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798995651925

Editeur : Giant Claw, 2026

Synopsis

I could say James Cushing's poetry is located on a Jungian dreamscape between fairy tale and French Surrealism, with Luis Buñuel and Borges wandering nearby, but I won't-because "locate" is the wrong word. This poetry won't stay anywhere for long-now you see it, now it's elsewhere. It defies the quotidian, dodges ordinariness. A sense of play prevails, but the closing lines strike a baleful note, "The night was a damp low cloud. I was barely dressed. There was no other story. 'What brought you to me today?' I asked. She shivered. 'I want your nightmare to be over.'" Somewhere there's a disturbance in the air. This isn't mere child's play.

-Suzanne Lummis, author of Crime Wave & Open 24 Hours

In SPOKEN IN THE DARK James Cushing creates an immersive, dreamlike universe: "The past comes to me in a dream of six fresco panels". A universe that feels impossible and at the same time real, undoubtable; like the opening verses of the book "A horse made of candy/forced his heavy head into our room." The poems navigate between what is spoken (expressed, understood) and what is dark (still to be discovered). Cushing takes the reader to "the part of the house that's always dark" where we are invited to search: "Every border will be an open angel to you." The language is surprising, unpredictable (Cushing has been called an "unrepentant surrealist") but sometimes is grounded in disarming details of normalcy: "I don't know why you are fidgeting with your phone." Throughout all the dark rooms that inhabit this collection, Cushing's voice emerges clear, unmistakable, revealing: "I tried to lie, but the words come out true, / with no ink on them, no fingerprints, / as though freshly born."

-Mariano Zaro, author of The Weight of Sound & Decoding Sparrows

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Giant Claw
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798995651925
• Reliure: Tapa blanda
• Nombre de pages: 98
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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