Quite apart / Krystal Languell.

Author
Languell, Krystal, 1984- [Browse]
Uniform title
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/​Created
  • Akron, Ohio : The University of Akron Press, 2019.
  • ©2019
Description
90 pages ; 23 cm.

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    Series
    Akron series in poetry [More in this series]
    Summary note
    "Quite Apart asks 'what about after survival?' in a chronicle of attempts to have a heart in a rough world. Haunted by work and its wasted hours, the book offers a glimpse of self-rendered as subtext beneath the sheen of productivity. Inventive formal poems provide a kind of alibi, mirroring the inflexibility of the environment--driving through mountains, bleeding in alleys, losing keys in a bar parking lot--to allow some emotion to pass through, tenderness intact. The action among forms of address moves across the sections from direct to readerly, to more distant, back to the last/lost sequence, and ultimately into an intimate direct address, which builds up a reserve of trust adequate to collapse the distance of a cool operator. Mediated by grammatical invention, the collection enacts the making of an authentic place and self, reckoning with difficult truths (failures, omissions) to arrive at a state of peace having weathered some storms. It returns to a core and singular perspective, a knowing eye, that captures absurdity and tragedy, the absurdity of tragedy, to find--beyond vigilance--a balance between acceptance and bucking, which is perhaps another name for love"-- Provided by publisher.
    ISBN
    • 9781629221427 (paperback : alkaline paper)
    • 1629221422 (paperback : alkaline paper)
    LCCN
    2018051841
    OCLC
    1074307651
    Other standard number
    • 40028986279
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