Temper is at once violent and controlled, unflinching and unforgiving in temperament. The poems are mercilessly recursive, placing pressure on the lyric as a mode of both the elegiac and the ecstatic. The result is an enforced silence, urgent with grief.
Temper is at once violent and controlled, unflinching and unforgiving in temperament. The poems are mercilessly recursive, placing pressure on ...
Framed by the long poem, ""wall"", Beth Bachmann's new collection of poetry wildly upturns the boundaries between bodies at peace and bodies at war, between the human territory of border walls and the effects of war on the environment, between the movements of soldiers and of refugees, and between the words of politicians and the breath of a poem.
Framed by the long poem, ""wall"", Beth Bachmann's new collection of poetry wildly upturns the boundaries between bodies at peace and bodies at war, b...
