| Author: | Averill Curdy | ISBN: | 9781466880696 |
| Publisher: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Publication: | September 9, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Language: | English |
| Author: | Averill Curdy |
| ISBN: | 9781466880696 |
| Publisher: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Publication: | September 9, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Language: | English |
A lush, lyrical debut from a vibrant new poetic voice
A sparrow like a "fumbled punch line" is lost in an airport; a man translating Ovid is transfigured by witnessing a massacre in Jamestown in 1621; a woman smiles seductively as the skin on her back is opened out like a wing; a lizard upon a laptop shimmers with the true life, primitive and binary, of our modern information age.
In the sonically rich, formally restless poems of this debut collection, Song & Error, the thread that unravels all we think we know of the world is plucked loose and drawn from a seal's beached corpse. Uniting past and present, history and autobiography, Averill Curdy's poems strive to endure within "the crease of transformation" and to speak-sing-of that terrible beauty.
A lush, lyrical debut from a vibrant new poetic voice
A sparrow like a "fumbled punch line" is lost in an airport; a man translating Ovid is transfigured by witnessing a massacre in Jamestown in 1621; a woman smiles seductively as the skin on her back is opened out like a wing; a lizard upon a laptop shimmers with the true life, primitive and binary, of our modern information age.
In the sonically rich, formally restless poems of this debut collection, Song & Error, the thread that unravels all we think we know of the world is plucked loose and drawn from a seal's beached corpse. Uniting past and present, history and autobiography, Averill Curdy's poems strive to endure within "the crease of transformation" and to speak-sing-of that terrible beauty.
