Winter Here

Poems

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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In Jessica Tanck’s debut collection, narrative and lyric converge to confront the marks left by violence, loss, and longing. Winter Here troubles the boundaries between home and the outside world, between reverence and terror, asking whether and where safety can be found in the wake of a mother’s suicide. Both intimate and expansive, this collection revels in pleasure as much as it contends with pain. Whether studying the way a violinist is bruised in the act of playing, invoking the crush of ice around a ship’s hull during a silence, or conjuring a crown of light surrounding strangers speaking in tongues, these poems are unflinching, imaginative, and relentless in their searching. By moving between the explicit and the oblique, pairing scorching imagery with razor-edged thought, Tanck evokes a history that haunts every word and place.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-04-01
Mått152 x 229 x 9 mm
Vikt146 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieGeorgia Poetry Prize
Antal sidor88
FörlagUniversity of Georgia Press
ISBN9780820366654

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JESSICA TANCK is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s MFA program. Her work has appeared in The Adroit Journal, Alaska Quarterly Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Blackbird, Colorado Review, DIAGRAM, Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review, The Los Angeles Review, Meridian, New Ohio Review, Ninth Letter, and others. Jess lives and writes in Salt Lake City, where she is a Vice Presidential Fellow and Ph.D. student in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Utah. She serves as the Editor of Quarterly West.

Jessica Tanck’s Winter Here is a deeply visceral and refreshingly unflinching collection. These poems do not shy away from hard truths as they deal with the specter of childhood and eventual coming of age through the lens of the death of an ineffectual mother and the lack of faith in adults and adulthood. These poems are set in a world that does not come with a set of instructions to guide us—everything comes into question—love, relationships, religion, and most important, memory and our oftentimes tenuous relationship with it. Tanck’s poems will grab you by the collar and will not let you go, and you’ll be glad for it.