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Crying of Small Motors

Crying of Small Motors

Brandis, Craig

Hardcover

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $32.99

ISBN13: 9798888385951
Publisher: Finishing Line Press
Published: Jun 14 2024
Pages: 56
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Through portraits of working class life and meditations on strange, even comedic aspects of personal tragedy, Crying of Small Motors follows the poet's search for a poetics of devotional wildness, for language that balances sorrow, absurdity and optimism. Brandis's voice is lyric, narrative and spare. His poems are acts of restless defamiliarization: a voracious sea lion he encountered while rowing is like a familial unkindness carried to the grave; a wounded veteran is like a fermata in a wheelchair. He approaches his large subjects by way of small gestures. As reviewer John Wall Barger wrote, we trust the poet and follow him into increasingly strange, Tranströmer-like spaces: above the small print / grasses, a horse's / double field / of vision folds / the country / lengthwise. The arc of the book follows the poet's struggle to fashion something useful, like a new utensil, from the grief and tragic beauty found in lifes' difficult places.

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