Unmanly Grief (eBook)

Poems

Jess Williard (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
50 Seiten
University of Arkansas Press (Verlag)
978-1-61075-662-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Finalist, 2019 Miller Williams Poetry Prize "e;Poems that lead us to striking insights and strange destinations."e; -Billy Collins The men who recur as characters throughout Jess Williard's Unmanly Grief perform their masculinity in a variety of ways: boxing, theater, brotherhood, labor, and familial and romantic love. Marked by a sharp nostalgia, Williard's poems move from Wisconsin to New York City and back, tracing the geographic movement of the speaker and his family: a teenage sister who disappears and returns, changed irrevocably; an older brother dismantled in adulthood; an ever-sacrificing father. Woven through the musculature of this varied and exciting collection, music appears as readily in dexterous formal verse as in lean, scrappy storytelling. What results is a crooning celebration of struggle and tenderness in this world, "e;where to be small and furious is enough."e; Finalist, 2020 Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award from the Binghamton Center for Writers

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.3.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• ISBN-10: 1-61075-662-2 / 1610756622
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61075-662-4 / 9781610756624