If all the world and love were young /

In Stephen Sexton's remarkable debut, the video games of his childhood are once again a way to slip through the looking glass, to be in two places at once, to be two people at once. In these poems about the death of his mother, this moving, otherworldly narrative takes us through the levels of...

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Main Author: Sexton, Stephen (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Winston-Salem, North Carolina : Wake Forest University Press, [2023].
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Summary:In Stephen Sexton's remarkable debut, the video games of his childhood are once again a way to slip through the looking glass, to be in two places at once, to be two people at once. In these poems about the death of his mother, this moving, otherworldly narrative takes us through the levels of Super Mario World, whose flowered landscapes bleed into our world, and ours, strange with loss, bleed into it. This moving, otherworldly narrative is a daring exploration of memory, grief and the necessity of the unreal.
Physical Description:118 pages ; 23 cm.
ISBN:9781943667086 (pbk.)
194366708X (pbk.)