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When You're Deep in a Thing

When You're Deep in a Thing

Cappo, Anthony

Paperback

Series: Stahlecker Selections

General Poetry

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ISBN10: 1954245270
ISBN13: 9781954245273
Publisher: Four Way Books
Published: Sep 15 2022
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.32 Width: 5.91 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
When You're Deep in a Thing reimagines the coming of age book and the masculine tropes of the bildungsroman, suggesting that adulthood never vanquishes the kids we were. When Cappo's speaker returns home for holidays, memories / of hangdog childhood seep in / like methane. Despite temporal distance, he perpetually finds himself in the museum of paternal absence, the house his father left, where ghosts whisper and frames / fade to shame. From this possessed site, the collection bravely asks, how does one make sense of boyhood? Become a man without guidance? As the certainties of a religious upbringing vanish, the physical and spiritual boundaries of the world threaten to disintegrate. From depression, to political violence, to the certainty of death, Cappo's exigent debut ventures to discover an intimate humanity against all odds. At these poems' horizons, a tenacity remains, a determination to find sweetness, candor, and connection in this troubled world, where the air's still, // The ground a trembling silence, yet scathed we set out again.

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