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The Pain Cycle
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639804993
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Mar 13 2024
Pages: 62
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.15 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
-Laura Reece Hogan, author of Butterfly Nebula
Alexandria Wyckoff's The Pain Cycle charts the path from injury to recovery following a torn ACL. This path is not linear; instead, it circles and swerves, becomes otherworldly, as Wyckoff explores through the persona of an alien woven through the book. Wyckoff asks what it means to navigate an other body, one dependent on two new metal limbs that click, click, click as they carry her. While this collection will especially resonate with those who have experienced injury and its aftermath, Wyckoff's innovative use of form and her fresh descriptions-the injury like a cello / string stretched / to its limits, or the way the barren trees creak in the wind as the speaker finally finds her footing-will speak to any reader.
-Laura Donnelly, author of Midwest Gothic
Alexandria Wyckoff's poems lead us from a gymnasium's shiny, waxed floor into the hands of a doctor injecting nerve blockers-from a high school girl's revealing Google search history into the cold shock of glacial runoff in a spruce-shaded valley. Better still, Wyckoff guides us from the claustrophobic desperation of the wounded into the laughter, spin and chase of a life on the mend, an alien becoming human again. A promising start from a writer to watch.
-Soma Mei Sheng Frazier, author of Salve
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