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    612-822-4611

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Everything Here

Everything Here

Swift, Billie

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $12.00

ISBN10: 1943977623
ISBN13: 9781943977628
Publisher: Sibling Rivalry Press, LLC
Published: Sep 19 2019
Pages: 34
Weight: 0.13
Height: 0.08 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

Billie Swift's Everything Here meditates on the mythologies of the banal with a calibrated ambivalence. The here of Swift's poems rebuffs and bolsters the eye's ability to document, the body's ability to believe the swelter of its sensate world: Compare this to flight. / The flight will be my hand / pushing through the dark, / the feel of nothing / against my palm. The speakers hold [their] mutual / eternities, [their] shared bits of air, unafraid to point toward your favorite star and proclaim it less than alive. Swift's poems share a fabulous muzzle, parsing one hundred tabletops, one hundred jays, one hundred trees, in sharp, precise language. Everything Here is a lissome spell for an othered quotidian, each poem a way to stay / still, wanting to be that important.

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