Edición de la obra Quite apart
| Autor | Krystal Languell |
|---|---|
| Editorial | The University of Akron Press |
| Fecha de publicación | 2019 |
| Lugar | Akron, Ohio |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 90 |
| ISBN-13 | 9781629221427, 9781629221434, 9781629221441 |
| ISBN-10 | 1629221422 |
| OCLC | 1074307651 |
| LCCN | 2018051841 |
| Serie | Akron series in poetry · Akron series in poetry |
| Número de Cutter |
L287q |
"Quite Apart asks 'what about after survival?' in a chronicle of attempts to have a heart in a rough world. Haunted by work and its wasted hours, the book offers a glimpse of self-rendered as subtext beneath the sheen of productivity. Inventive formal poems provide a kind of alibi, mirroring the inflexibility of the environment--driving through mountains, bleeding in alleys, losing keys in a bar parking lot--to allow some emotion to pass through, tenderness intact. The action among forms of address moves across the sections from direct to readerly, to more distant, back to the last/lost sequence, and ultimately into an intimate direct address, which builds up a reserve of trust adequate to collapse the distance of a cool operator. Mediated by grammatical invention, the collection enacts the making of an authentic place and self, reckoning with difficult truths (failures, omissions) to arrive at a state of peace having weathered some storms. It returns to a core and singular perspective, a knowing eye, that captures absurdity and tragedy, the absurdity of tragedy, to find--beyond vigilance--a balance between acceptance and bucking, which is perhaps another name for love"--