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Abridged: Erasure Poems
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639805471
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Apr 23 2024
Pages: 38
Weight: 0.14
Height: 0.08 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
-Nathan Spoon, author of The Importance of Being Feeble-Minded
Just as all poetry is a resistance to the dictionary's controlling reduction of speech, in Abridged Hunley swerves & pecks at the English language, building bridges out of zigzags, freeing words to echo & eddy their definition's stark rhythms, recovering the I that breathes inside the X.
-Mathias Svalina, author of Destruction Myth
What a strange and wonderful collection Abridged is. It reinvigorates language while maintaining beautiful accessibility. Hunley has found a striking balance between sonics, imagery and narrative, so that in our reading of his work we forget ourselves. It's a struggle to think of these poems in excerpt, considering how well they work in their wholeness. Readers find themselves reacting not to a single line or phrase but to the poems in their entirety-I can't think of a much rarer occurrence in poetry. The poems are like miniature paintings, and yet we are taken in by just how full and lush they are.
-Adam Day, author of Illuminated Edges
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