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Plastic Life

Plastic Life

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1917617089
ISBN13: 9781917617086
Publisher: Broken Sleep Books
Published: May 31 2025
Pages: 48
Weight: 0.13
Height: 0.12 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

Giles L. Turnbull's Plastic Life is a tightly woven narrative-in-verse that examines disposability in all its forms-of relationships, rituals, memory, and meaning. Structured as a quiet unraveling, the sequence follows an unnamed protagonist through the fallout of a failed marriage, shadowed by modern life's throwaway culture and his own faltering attempts at connection. In spare, clear-eyed poems that drift from commuter trains to grief-soaked recollections, Turnbull sketches a world of plastic cutlery, takeout coffee, and unspoken regrets. The result is an elegy for the irretrievable, rendered in fragments both tender and unsparing.

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