Cry back my sea : 48 poems in 6 waves /
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, on...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2021.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 92 pages ; 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780593319505 0593319508 |