Stay Safe (eBook)

Emma Hine (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
Sarabande Books (Verlag)
978-1-946448-69-9 (ISBN)

Infos

This debut collection, full of natural images and fable-like storytelling, investigates the precariousness inherent to familial love, grief, and myth-making.

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At the center of this stellar collection are three sisters and their imaginative fear of grief. Their great-uncle was bitten by a shark, their mother has a brain tumor, their neighbor hangs himself from a tree—and to cope with these very real terrors, the oldest sister creates an intimate fantasy world. We hear stories of a mountain lion that slaughters a deer, a transparent body washed up on a beach, a selkie who ventures to shore and becomes their mother: “On land her pelt was heavy / like stewed velvet, so she taught herself / to take it off.” The sisters’ environment of ocean and sand, forests and farmhouses, forms a lush backdrop to many of these poems. But later, as the speaker ages, we find ourselves in the mountains, in an art museum, in a spacecraft where a recorded voice “has the soft accent of someone only a generation or two removed from Earth.” The voice in these poems is the perfect mix of grief and imagination, quiet and explosion. Stay Safe is delicate and extraordinary, a powerful debut.

Autor

Originally from Austin, Texas, Emma Hine received a BA from Washington University in St. Louis and an MFA from New York University. Her poems have appeared in 32 Poems, Arts & Letters, Gulf Coast, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Mississippi Review, The Missouri Review, Ninth Letter, The Offing, Painted Bride Quarterly, and The Southern Review. In addition to the 2019 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, she won the 2014 Arts & Letters Rumi Prize in Poetry.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.1.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry
• Reihe/Serie: Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik
• Schlagworte: endurance of the human spirit • exploration of love and loss • Fable • familial love • Family • Fantasy world • feelings of terror • Grief • Imagination • imaginative fear of grief • Kathryn A. Morton Prize winner • Myth • National Poetry Month • Poems • Poems about familial love • Poems about sisterhood • Poetry • Sisterhood • Sisters • women's history month
• ISBN-10: 1-946448-69-9 / 1946448699
• ISBN-13: 978-1-946448-69-9 / 9781946448699