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Begin with a Failed Body: Poems

Begin with a Failed Body: Poems

Graham, Natalie J.

Paperback

Series: Cave Canem Prize

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $21.95

ISBN10: 0820351202
ISBN13: 9780820351209
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: Sep 15 2017
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.27 Width: 5.53 Depth: 8.24
Language: English
This collection of poems begins rooted in the landscape of the U.S. South as it voices singular lives carved out of immediate and historical trauma. While these poems dwell in the body, often meditating on its frailty and desire, they also question the weight that literary, historical, and religious icons are expected to bear. Within the vast scope of this volume, the poems arc from a pig farmer's funeral to Georges de la Tour's paintings and Toni Morrison's Beloved. With an ear tuned to the lift and lilt of speech, they wring song from sorrow and plant in every dirge a seed of jubilation. Rich in clarity and decisive in her attention to image, Natalie J. Graham writes resonant, lush poetry.

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