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Cry Back My Sea: 48 Poems In 6 Waves
Knopf
ISBN13:
9780593319505
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Stunning poems of obsession, loss, and the desire for a renewed self, from the award-winning poet and translator of Lorca. I thought I had left behind the darkness / of the heart," Sarah Arvio confesses in the poem "small war." The love Arvio traces in these pages is a battle, one in which the best-laid plans are shattered. Rarely has a poet tackled intimate love with so much invention and bravery. In poem after poem, we meet the troubling lover whose nearness and force undoes her. There are moments of reprieve: "my naked body and budding pleasure / in the weather of your presence. Not whether your presence but how." The voice is vulnerable, self-knowing, often funny; the poet seems to be writing these poems to save herself from a damaging passion. Her weapons are a cascade of gorgeous ten-syllable lines and a powerful command of metaphor, wielded in a search for meaning and understanding rather than devastation. These breathtaking love poems make the collection Arvio's most universal to date"--
- | Author: Sarah Arvio
- | Publisher: Knopf
- | Publication Date: 10-Aug-21
- | Number of Pages: 112 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 0593319508
- | ISBN-13: 9780593319505
- Author:
- Sarah Arvio
- Publisher:
- Knopf
- Publication Date:
- 10-Aug-21
- Number of pages:
- 112 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10:
- 0593319508
- ISBN-13:
- 9780593319505