Strange What Rises

Fiction & Literature, Poetry, American
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Author: Gary J. Whitehead ISBN: 9781947896147
Publisher: Terrapin Books Publication: January 15, 2019
Imprint: Terrapin Books Language: English
Author: Gary J. Whitehead
ISBN: 9781947896147
Publisher: Terrapin Books
Publication: January 15, 2019
Imprint: Terrapin Books
Language: English

Departing from the more whimsical tone of A Glossary of Chickens, Whitehead's last book, this new collection explores, among other subjects, childlessness in middle age, the vicissitudes of divorce, the pain of parental aging, and the mystery of mortality. Laden with regret and misgiving, but illuminated by glimmers of hopefulness and joy, the poems flow organically and without sections, one building on the other with thematic or linguistic links, moving from silence to song, from a corrupted flower to "the force / of the crossing when the humming ceases."

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Departing from the more whimsical tone of A Glossary of Chickens, Whitehead's last book, this new collection explores, among other subjects, childlessness in middle age, the vicissitudes of divorce, the pain of parental aging, and the mystery of mortality. Laden with regret and misgiving, but illuminated by glimmers of hopefulness and joy, the poems flow organically and without sections, one building on the other with thematic or linguistic links, moving from silence to song, from a corrupted flower to "the force / of the crossing when the humming ceases."

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