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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Tongue

Tongue

Flynn, Rachel Contreni

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $18.95

ISBN10: 1597094757
ISBN13: 9781597094757
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Published: Apr 1 2010
Pages: 89
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

In this haunting, intense, and lyrical new collection of poems by Rachel Contreni Flynn, we meet two sisters growing up in farmland America until they are separated by the older girl's illness. The younger girl travels to the Maine coast where the radio reports the discovery of a human tongue on the beach. Tongue is a story as harrowing and magical as any Old World fairy tale, told in a voice that is at once frank and gentle. Flynn has crafted a book full of wilderness, mystery, magic, as her poems confront time and again the myths and memories of childhood and ask us to name what nourishes, changes, sustains, and saves us. Sensuous, inventive and startling images cohere into narrative: here, anger is a piano, God is a Matchbox car, loyalty is a wild pig. At its essence, Tongue is about the unending complexity and sheer stubbornness of love: so difficult, so generous, so fabulous.

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