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Arranging Words
Paperback
Literary CriticismGeneral Poetry
Publisher: Quillkeepers Press
Published: Oct 26 2023
Pages: 48
Weight: 0.13
Height: 0.10 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Arranging Words is Abrams' second chapbook collection. Like her first chapbook, The Poet Who Loves Pythagoras, this book is a series of light-hearted poems that asks the reader to look at the world from a new perspective. These poems approach letters, words, and everyday phrases in a way that pokes fun at the eccentricities of the English language.
For example, her poem titled K Knows How to Hide and Seek begins with the line K knocks twice, but we only hear him once, reminds us how often k is a silent letter. The poem Poetry Exercise plays on the meaning of the word exercise with the line Brain cells stretch, lift your arms, reach for words. Phrases are deconstructed into literal meanings, such as in the poem Beside Myself that asks, Am I myself or the one beside myself?
This collection illuminates the quirks of the English language in a lively, humorous way while demonstrating a love for words themselves.
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