B o Y |
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| Author:
| Wise, Consuelo |
| ISBN: | 978-1-63243-130-1 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2024 |
| Publisher: | Omnidawn Publishing
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $19.95 |
Book Description:
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A hybrid book-length poem in which the protagonist grapples with a great loss.
In this hybrid of lyric poetry and essay, Consuelo Wise utilizes repetition, fragmentation, and syntax to construct a form that repeatedly falls apart. Breaks in lines and fragmented stanzas are followed by accumulative rushes, slashes, brackets, and words pushed together.
Throughout this book-length poem, Wise composes a meditation and an investigation into loss and identity. Moving between...
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A hybrid book-length poem in which the protagonist grapples with a great loss.
In this hybrid of lyric poetry and essay, Consuelo Wise utilizes repetition, fragmentation, and syntax to construct a form that repeatedly falls apart. Breaks in lines and fragmented stanzas are followed by accumulative rushes, slashes, brackets, and words pushed together.
Throughout this book-length poem, Wise composes a meditation and an investigation into loss and identity. Moving between sound and image, aggression and subtlety, b o y pries open memories that resist understanding but also refuse to be forgotten. Wise peels back layers of mourning, considering how it can be experienced as a personal, inherited, environmental, social, and historical phenomenon. Throughout, the protagonist in b o y reenvisions ways to process a great loss, listening closely and searching for words while "the earth is shaking and the silence is pressing down."