Sign-In
Cart
The Scary Abecedary
Paperback
Publisher Price: $13.00
ISBN13: 9781786958532
Publisher: Curved Quill Press
Published: Jul 18 2023
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English
With 26 poems teased from skin and tissue and veiny threads, Brooke MacKenzie's The Scary Abecedary resounds with brutality, fragility, and fear. A startling debut and a lesson for our times. -Lee Murray, four-time Bram Stoker Award?-winner and author of Tortured Willows
Abecedary [ ey-bee-see-duh-ree ]: The alphabet, written out in a teaching book, or carved on a wall; a primer
There are so many frightening things
And in imposing an alphabetic structure onto them, I am attempting to control and contain them. It is a futile effort to make everything seem less scary
Each letter of the alphabet has been assigned a fright.
Sometimes the poems are scary, sometimes they're gruesome, sometimes subversive,
Sometimes deeply personal
Because the definition of scary shifts and changes depending upon
The layers of feelings and experiences and moods
That cover our eyes like a film at any given moment
Our lenses shift and our pupils dilate and our minds go along for the ride
But there are so many frightening things
And they seem to multiply with each passing day?.
Will we ever be safe again?
Were we ever really safe at all?
Also from
MacKenzie, Brooke
Generation Now: Millennials Call for Social Change
Adams, Emily
Allen, Taylor
MacKenzie, Brooke
Paperback
Also in
General Poetry
Dante's Vita Nuova, New Edition: A Translation and an Essay
Alighieri, Dante
Pitavy, Francois
Paperback
The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos (by the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature)
Carson, Anne
Paperback
Sounding the Seasons Enlarged Edition: One Hundred and Ten Sonnets for the Christian Year
Guite, Malcolm
Paperback
Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera (by the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature)
Carson, Anne
Paperback
Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
Le Guin, Ursula K.
Lao Tzu
Paperback
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (by the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature)
Carson, Anne
Paperback
They Bloom Because of You: Poems on the Infinite Love, Growth, and Magic of Motherhood
Urlichs, Jessica
Paperback