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The Arsonist's Letters

The Arsonist's Letters

Tyrell, Michael

Hardcover

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1954780176
ISBN13: 9781954780170
Publisher: Backlash Press
Published: Jul 22 2024
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Comprised of poetry written over the course of more than two decades, Michael Tyrell's The Arsonist's Letters reckons with a radically changing landscape, where infestations of coincidence overlap with reflective / tricks and rungless ladders, and increased surveillance meets the threat of looming extinction. Throughout, memorable historical and contemporary figures emerge: a cousin mistaken for the abducted Lindbergh child; a boy who must make a bargain to keep from starving in Mussolini's Italy; children [...] / who swear live inside them /the entire populations of small countries. Including moving elegies for a dying mother and poems that puzzle over difficult family secrets, the collection also stands as a paean to correspondence itself, celebrating not only the near-lost art of letter writing but the spiritual necessity of the written message: You carry an unsent card in your coat like immunity papers/ from one ruined place to another / where it is, at least, somehow, / always spring.

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