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The Inevitable Return of What We Do Not Love

The Inevitable Return of What We Do Not Love

Choffel, Julie

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $14.99

ISBN13: 9798888380376
Publisher: Finishing Line Pr
Published: Nov 11 2022
Pages: 26
Weight: 0.10
Height: 0.06 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Like the best songs, Julie Choffel's The Inevitable Return of What We Do Not Love is a poem fueled by desire. To have so many / ways to say I want is dangerous and selfish, we've heard: we should be content; we should be grateful. But women are never / not hungry, Choffel's mother-speaker insists, aware that her life plays out as two tracks in the same song-the material world of meals and routines as well as the imaginative realm. Poetry is this parallel universe, these other zones, this floor / under the garbage, these subterranean places where we meet to tend to different hungers. In Choffel's hands, these spaces bloom with deep seeing and wry humor: there I go / again trying to liberate us from what we don't know. The poem becomes a vehicle for satisfying its own longings, a gift then passed along to us as readers-so that we, too, might dance to such a soundtrack in our kitchens and in the otherworlds that envelop the everyday. If you're willing to risk being brought back to your own desires, enter The Inevitable Return.

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