We fell into weather : poems /
"At heart conceptual and formally experimental, Alexandra Mattraw's We fell into weather creates visual and sonic textures that link toxicity--environmental, historical, domestic--with neurodivergence and disease. These poems are alive with musicality and internal rhyme, "the way hay...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Brooklyn :
The Cultural Society,
2020.
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| Summary: | "At heart conceptual and formally experimental, Alexandra Mattraw's We fell into weather creates visual and sonic textures that link toxicity--environmental, historical, domestic--with neurodivergence and disease. These poems are alive with musicality and internal rhyme, "the way hay rips scars into wrists the way granite / fields bloom back bruises," while offering glimpses into the stuff of everyday life--the toddler's cough, the broken lamp taped back together. In Mattraw's spare and elegant lines, an image will crystallize briefly as a family drives away from California wildfires, but then disperse like vapor, like "ash . . . Rend[s] the visibility of air." Attuned to the sublime in nature and in language, this is a poet who invites our close and sustained attention, who invites us to improve ourselves. --Mary-Kim Arnold"--Publisher's website. |
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| Physical Description: | 80 pages ; 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780999491263 0999491261 |