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Gut Renovations
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639800247
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Oct 16 2021
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.23 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
-Jennifer Franklin, author of No Small Gift (Four Way Books)
As the title of Vincent Bell's new book Gut Renovations implies, there is serious work going on here - entire rooms - a life - stripped to the studs and rebuilt, by memory, by poetry. No, not rebuilt, for the old bones show through, the basic floor plan remains the same, but reanimated. It's a testament to Mr. Bell's superb craftsmanship and unfailing recall of detail that, for example, we see with our own eyes, but more deeply, the subtle menace of even the most mundane objects. Reader, these are achingly moving odes to loss and recovery. They will gut you, and then, little by little amaze you with their reconstructed beauty.
-Daniel Lawless, editor of Plume
At the heart of this startling debut is the negotiation between radical self-disclosure and the cool formality of human intercourse; a desire to unravel. These poems read like elegies but also fables, joining narratives of ritual with the epiphanies of the everyday, insights which so often only arrive in retrospective glances or waking dreams. Bell's ability to dig deep - and to keep drilling - provides exactly these gifts of reclamation. Gut Renovations is a discovery.
-Chris Campanioni, author of A and B and Also Nothing, the Internet is for real, and Death of Art; editor of PANK and publisher of PANK Books
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