Sign-In
Cart
When I Drowned
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639802012
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Oct 11 2022
Pages: 74
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.18 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
-Gary Lemons, author of Snake
Part ghost story and part love story, these lyric poems wade deliciously near a Victorian aesthetic. The dead understand love can haunt good as any ghost. Water becomes a sinister thing without a proper mind. Unique and powerful, this book, the images and stories within, will linger like a chill.
-Michael Schmeltzer, author of Empire of Surrender
When I Drowned plumbs our most intimate relationships to measure domestic drownings daily endured-mother and daughter, anima and animus, lovers, the living and the dead. In language intensified by hydrostatic pressure, she conjures the people and spaces where strangers share our sleep in sapphire light. It is a republic of secrets she elevates, brought to the surface by a feminine spirit as sleek as an open thigh, goddess fleshed, and clear-seeing underwater.
-Kathryn Hunt, author of Seed Wheel
When I Drowned is engaging, masterful storytelling. When we talk about voice concerning some poets, we are assessing their aesthetic style, but that is far from the truth when I read Lauren Davis poems. In her beautiful and haunting narratives, consider voice as the character speech of Davis's personas. The protagonist are archetypes, and they speak for themselves. Their language is unique as they are, and I am wonderfully transported to those places, and times, where they live.
-Gary Copeland Lilley, author of The Bushman's Medicine Show
Davis is one of those rare poets who can create a new world in a poem and then flip that world on its head with a single line. Using the sparest of language, these poems are explorations of loss and yearning, and surveys of the various ways the soul can thirst even in landscapes defined by water, even with mouths full of water. When I Drowned is a triptych of beautiful anguish.
-Denton Loving, author of Crimes Against Birds
Also from
Davis, Lauren
Camp Chef Grill & Smoker Cookbook: Delicious Recipes and Step by Step Directions Camp Chef Grill &Smoker
Davis, Lauren
Paperback
Camp Chef Grill & Smoker Cookbook: Delicious Recipes and Step by Step Directions Camp Chef Grill &Smoker
Davis, Lauren
Hardcover
Also in
General Poetry
Dante's Vita Nuova, New Edition: A Translation and an Essay
Alighieri, Dante
Pitavy, Francois
Paperback
Sounding the Seasons Enlarged Edition: One Hundred and Ten Sonnets for the Christian Year
Guite, Malcolm
Paperback
Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
Lao Tzu
Le Guin, Ursula K.
Paperback
They Bloom Because of You: Poems on the Infinite Love, Growth, and Magic of Motherhood
Urlichs, Jessica
Paperback
This Is the Main Event: Discovering the Life You Long for in the Life You Have
Smith, Joshua Luke
Hardcover