Suspend

ISBN-13: 9781848610866 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 80 str.

Nancy Kuhl

Opis

Poetry. "Wide awake and unruly, SUSPEND is saturated with acts of revelation and risk. The body can be 'laid open like a book, ' but words also perform their own physiology, and the alphabet keeps time like the calling of stops on a train. Pushed ahead by narrative momentum and pulled back, suspended, by contemplation, recollection, and the dizzying potential of human will and desire, these poems possess a vibrantly lived verbal energy. In the articulation of such powerful tensions, one begins to believe that our programming can be undone, the calendar rewritten, the train diverted to new destinations"--Elizabeth Willis

"Taking place within a lunar month, and likewise, within a menstrual cycle, Suspend is deeply concerned with pregnancy, sexual desire, self and self-doubled and doubling. In this collection of poems, fragments, prose, askew childrens verse, and insomniacs jottings, Kuhl privileges the difficult inquiry of the whole book over the jewel-like quality of her "finished verse." The work often feels manic, written down as quickly as the unconscious gives its fragments of memories connected to an insomniacs roving/raving mind; then, in extraordinary counterpoint, the poems assemble the urgent fractures of the diary-like notes into verse of remarkable formal beauty and integrity." -Dan Beachy-Quick