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Friendly Fire: Poems
Paperback
Publisher Price: $16.95
ISBN13: 9780980028911
Publisher: Lost Horse Press
Published: Oct 13 2011
Pages: 60
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.19 Width: 5.56 Depth: 8.26
Language: English
Friendly Fire, Katrina Roberts' cycle of fifty-two sonnets, proves the durability and flexibility of the lyric today. A taut narrative scaffolding supports Roberts' brief, searing meditations on family, farm labor, friendship, illness, parenting. Colloquial language lends verve. Literal images evoke the texture of farm life. Roberts explores abstraction ( Forgiveness ) with apt metaphor: I shelter the grudge, build / a rustic cabin for it in my chest, pound rusty nails / in to anchor a porch where I sit glaring. At the close of Malignant, the narrator asks a timeless question: what lies in wait for us? Read Friendly Fire for Roberts' sensual and wise rendering of the here and now.--Robin Becker, author of Domain of Perfect Affection
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