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Mandible Wishbone Solvent

Mandible Wishbone Solvent

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Series: Phoenix Poets

General Poetry

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ISBN10: 0226830950
ISBN13: 9780226830957
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Feb 19 2024
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.54 Depth: 9.46
Language: English
A poetry collection that brings together word, image, and sound to reflect on fractured, fragmentary states of being.

The poetry of Mandible Wishbone Solvent is situated in the space of bridges, fragmentary overlays, spectral reach, and the desire to keep reaching. Asiya Wadud's poems engage in this act, not to stake a claim or to fasten themselves, but to hold fragments together in order to offer possibilities for connection and extension. Throughout the collection lies an acknowledgment that any hold will drift, meander, and find new paths, with each separation making space for new entanglements. Drawing on a keen interest in tactility and ekphrasis, Wadud mines the repetition and extension that comes with any fractured state of existence and considers the nature of a residual and roving we.

Following this selection of lyrical, ekphrastic, fragmented poems, the book concludes with two prose pieces that dwell on the concepts of isthmus and drift, respectively, which offer further grounds for contemplation and provide a frame for the poems.

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