Deke Dangle Dive – Poems

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

Av Gibson Fay–leblanc, Gibson Fay-LeBlanc

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What is a person to do upon finding out that his older brother has six months to live? What is a father to tell his young sons about the everyday violence, inequities, and injustices of the world? What is a husband to do when confronted with his domestic foibles and failings? What can poems possibly offer us in the face of unanswerable questions? Deke Dangle Dive explores illness, fatherhood, brotherhood, and masculinity through a variety of lenses, including ice hockey, contemporary culture, and the natural world. This unique collection considers how poems can speak to us and through us when all seems lost.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2021-04-17
Mått155 x 226 x 8 mm
Vikt176 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor104
FörlagCavanKerry Press
ISBN9781933880853

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“In long and short forms, free and metered and rhymed, Gibson Fay-LeBlanc’s Deke Dangle Dive is a gorgeous, powerful, and playful self-reckoning. With an ear deeply attuned to the verbal music of Frost and Heaney, spiked with a dash of Hopkins, and taking its metaphors and much of its matter from the hockey rink, Fay-LeBlanc faces the facts of middle age, of the practice of poetry, of raising two boys (‘It’s so easy/ to make broken people’) and working to keep a marriage sparked while circumstance hands out its humilities. It’s also a reckoning with a brother’s illness (‘I want, I want // my brother's cells to stop their war/ on each other’) and with the broken family of origin whose rules take a lifetime to untangle: ‘I who so often/ shut my mouth/ too early/ mean to/ keep on talking,’ says Fay-LeBlanc, intent on saying what hasn’t been said. But there is as much hope and consolation in these poems as there is wariness and weariness. Life’s not a game, but there are games to play, channels for all the rage and fear, moves against the uncertainty. Feel your heart lifted as this poet shows what sports and poetry have to teach one another: ‘Is this such bad training for what is to come?’”