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Twitch Force

Twitch Force

Redhill, Michael

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General Poetry

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ISBN10: 1487006187
ISBN13: 9781487006181
Publisher: House Of Anansi Pr
Published: Apr 9 2019
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

A muscle's twitch force is a measurement of its energy potential. It's history dependent: you can forget it, but it's engraved on you where you can't see it, and all it wants to do is repeat. Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Michael Redhill's first collection of poetry in eighteen years, Twitch Force has a gnomic, satirical, and lucid intelligence. In Ingredients, heredity's recipe is told via short-form family narrative; in My Arrangements, a stolen laptop battery leads to an encounter with the Israeli Olympic women's beach volleyball team; while in The Women, human beauty is parsed down to the level of chromosomes: I'm beautiful; I have my mother's feet. The women who change into men are beautiful men who were once beautiful women.

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