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Little Sound
Paperback
Series: Phoenix Poets
Publisher Price: $18.00
ISBN13: 9780226852416
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Oct 6 2026
Pages: 88
Weight: 1.00
Language: English
Attentive to echo and resonance, this debut collection ranges across and makes connections among natural, musical, and literary histories.
The title for Katherine Gibbel's debut collection plays with the etymology of the sonnet, or sonnetto in Italian: a little song or little sound. Exploring the possibility of words and the limits inherent in both language and form, Little Sound asks its reader, Did you hear that? and tunes in to what echoes when we listen.
Divided into three long poems, Little Sound explores language, gossip, reading practices, love, and death, tracing webs of meaning across a range of seemingly disparate topics. Gibbel's speaker interrogates partial histories and turns them into meditations on the literary, the natural, and the personal, including the subdivided memorial prairies of the Midwest, family history, pipe organs, and medieval theology. Associative, funny, curious, bell-like, and elaborately architectural, Gibbel's poems offer a study in emotional nuance, knowing winks, and sonic attentiveness.
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