We Do Not Eat Our Hearts Alone

Poems

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

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“What desire doesn’t seem as of the distance across a sea?” asks the voice in Kerri Webster’s debut collection of poetry, even as the poems attempt the transformation of that liminal space wherein word meets sense, loneliness meets solitude, and surface meets interior. Here, “the surface is our signature,” and the image of stain presents a way for that surface to reflect that which it conceals. In this space, human intimacy encounters the transience and frailty of language, and through these encounters we discover that grace lies in “believing always in imprint.”

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Utgivningsdatum2005-10-24
Mått140 x 216 x 6 mm
Vikt109 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska, Yoruba
SerieContemporary Poetry
Antal sidor72
FörlagUniversity of Georgia Press
ISBN9780820327730

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This collection is so adeptly crafted that it's difficult to believe it is a first book. Webster's poems offer language as a ‘stain’ that bears the invisible into the realm of the manifest: she colors the surface, which in turn proves the interior. Depicting a world that is defiantly frail, Webster dares poetry to 'let fall [its] horrible pleasure.' This poetry's richly imagined interior life insists on breaking through, pulled inside out, 'dipped in marrow.' Rhapsodic and frightening, and full of wily and delicate power.