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Music for a Wedding

Music for a Wedding

Clark, Lauren

Paperback

Series: Pitt Poetry

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 0822964996
ISBN13: 9780822964995
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: Nov 10 2017
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.10
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
The poems in Lauren Clark's debut book, Music for a Wedding, move fluidly and unforgettably between the rituals of monogamy, death, loneliness, and the body in search of what might last forever. In the abandonment of those who die and those who leave, Clark's speakers are orphic in their use of song as a mode of enduring the hours. Like sybils, Clark's poems make the entrails of what's left behind luminous, even if what is presented is darkness, that low velvet we make / within ourselves. Their poetry is at once free of the formalities associated with lyric poetry and full of its own novel shapes that only Clark could devise. Their poetry queers our understanding of poetics and what a book of poems can be by dwelling in intimate corners of the self that may seem otherwise insensate without their taking us in to witness such depths. In Clark's hands, the whole of the world--in poetry and on the ground--is preternatural, requiring of us dedication and devotion. But not to the usual rituals of mourning and prayer. Rather, darkness is to remind [us] what [we] could not see before, that in the absence of being with others, the only true devotion left is grief.

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