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The Alphabet Not Unlike the World
Paperback
Publisher Price: $16.00
ISBN13: 9781571314468
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: May 15 2012
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
In her highly ambitious second collection of poems, Katrina Vandenberg takes her inspiration from the alphabet.
A meditation on the hump of a camel, and what it hides. A reminder that tomatoes belong to the nightshade family, and a vision of the plant as Adam's downfall. The Book of Kells, gold-leafed and extravagantly decorated by monks. Titled for letters of the Phoenician alphabet, and employing such innovative forms as the ancient ghazal, these poems are richly grounded in objects both humble and exotic. Vandenberg explores the intersection of power and forgiveness, and deciphers the seemingly indecipherable in emotionally poignant ways. What will protect us? one poem asks. The words will be our weapons. In the end.
Moving between the physical and the abstract, the individual and the collective, The Alphabet Not Unlike the World unearths meaning--with astonishing beauty--from the pain of loss and separation.
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