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Stay Safe

Stay Safe

Hine, Emma

Paperback

Series: Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry

General Poetry

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ISBN10: 1946448680
ISBN13: 9781946448682
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Published: Jan 5 2021
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
At the center of this stellar collection are three sisters and their imaginative fear of grief. Their great-uncle was bitten by a shark, their mother has a brain tumor, their neighbor hangs himself from a tree--and to cope with these very real terrors, the oldest sister creates an intimate fantasy world. We hear stories of a mountain lion that slaughters a deer, a transparent body washed up on a beach, a selkie who ventures to shore and becomes their mother: On land her pelt was heavy / like stewed velvet, so she taught herself / to take it off. The sisters' environment of ocean and sand, forests and farmhouses, forms a lush backdrop to many of these poems. But later, as the speaker ages, we find ourselves in the mountains, in an art museum, in a spacecraft where a recorded voice has the soft accent of someone only a generation or two removed from Earth. The voice in these poems is the perfect mix of grief and imagination, quiet and explosion. Stay Safe is delicate and extraordinary, a powerful debut.

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