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Nothing but words
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Publisher Price: $9.99
ISBN13: 9781910981115
Publisher: Naked Eye Publishing
Published: Sep 1 2020
Pages: 46
Weight: 0.12
Height: 0.10 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English
The poems in Jean Stevens' latest collection revel in words: the joy of them; the work of finding the ones that say exactly what we mean; our use of them to 'manage the nothingness'. The words we choose for nature are 'vital for living at one with the elements'. A relationship can bow under the strain of 'a lifetime's freight of words said and regretted.'
Words spoken and heard implant themselves for ever: 'To hell with men, let's devote our lives to words', is a fragment of a conversation with Sylvia Plath. Meanwhile words spoken years ago resurface: 'that's not for the likes of you'. These poems are about the lifetime endeavour of 'trying to learn the impossible language'.
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