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ISBN13: 9781944585600
Publisher: Word Works
Published: Mar 1 2023
Pages: 90
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.24 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Doug Ramspeck's award-winning 9th book takes the fierce attachments and the violence of boyhood and transforms them to tenderness and a transcendent vision.
Gritty poems of boyhood alternate with explorations of the other, worlds where mother and sister orbit so differently, and later a marriage built of tenderness, not rage. Harsh honesty charges these poems--both with pure electricity and with the mission to find escape from violence, to find how to bear chaos and grief. The brothers' ordinary roughhousing is shadowed by the violence of their family life, but something pure does survive and flourish, until we slept / at night with the breaths of the marriage around us.
Poetry.
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