Tongue - Softcover

Flynn, Rachel Contreni

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1597094757 ISBN 13: 9781597094757

Verlag: Red Hen Press, 2010

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Rachel Contreni Flynn's intimate collection" "examines exile from the self, the body, and from family and society as it exacts the dangerous and necessary work of remembering. In "Tongue", the narrative lens shifts breathtakingly between trauma, wonder, insight and irony, each laboring in concert to "force the story to its rightful unfolding." Flynn demonstrates that identity is shaped by, and the self owes its very survival to, that "unfolding" where beauty is crafted from toxin, music from intractable anger--and with the "tongue "(as both "language "and tough muscle), " "one must "feast on solitude" in order to sing out bravely the root-note of grace. These wise, tender poems urge us to "love this world, though it is flawed/. . .love it entirely, or be lost" all the while recognizing that such an undertaking is no less than the daily rescue of one's own life from exile. --Chad Sweeney

Rachel Contreni Flynn, the winner of this year's Benjamin Saltman Award, honors us with the grace of her language, her strength of purpose as a poet, and the uncluttered emotional honesty of her work. These poems chronicle the stark contrasts that mark the lives of two sisters. A quirky adolescence and early adulthood is thrust upon one while the other's life is measured out in slow ounces. I was captured by this passionate and loving recounting of tragic years and dislocations. --Eloise Klein Healy, Final Judge, 2009 Benjamin Saltman Prize

Rachel Contreni Flynn's intimate collection" "examines exile from the self, the body, and from family and society as it exacts the dangerous and necessary work of remembering. In "Tongue", the narrative lens shifts breathtakingly between trauma, wonder, insight and irony, each laboring in concert to "force the story to its rightful unfolding." Flynn demonstrates that identity is shaped by, and the self owes its very survival to, that "unfolding" where beauty is crafted from toxin, music from intractable anger--and with the "tongue "(as both "language "and tough muscle), " "one must "feast on solitude" in order to sing out bravely the root-note of grace. These wise, tender poems urge us to "love this world, though it is flawed/. . .love it entirely, or be lost" all the while recognizing that such an undertaking is no less than the daily rescue of one's own life from exile. --Chad Sweeney

Rachel Contreni Flynn, the winner of this year's Benjamin Saltman Award, honors us with the grace of her language, her strength of purpose as a poet, and the uncluttered emotional honesty of her work. These poems chronicle the stark contrasts that mark the lives of two sisters. A quirky adolescence and early adulthood is thrust upon one while the other's life is measured out in slow ounces. I was captured by this passionate and loving recounting of tragic years and dislocations. --Eloise Klein Healy, Final Judge, 2009 Benjamin Saltman Prize

Rachel Contreni Flynn s intimate collection""examines exile from the self, the body, and from family and society as it exacts the dangerous and necessary work of remembering. In"Tongue," the narrative lens shifts breathtakingly between trauma, wonder, insight and irony, each laboring in concert to force the story to its rightful unfolding. Flynn demonstrates that identity is shaped by, and the self owes its very survival to, that"unfolding"where beauty is crafted from toxin, music from intractable anger and with the"tongue"(as both"language"and tough muscle), ""one must feast on solitude in order to sing out bravely the root-note of grace. These wise, tender poems urge us to love this world, though it is flawed/. . .love it entirely, or be lost all the while recognizing that such an undertaking is no less than the daily rescue of one s own life from exile. Chad Sweeney"

Rachel Contreni Flynn, the winner of this year s Benjamin Saltman Award, honors us with the grace of her language, her strength of purpose as a poet, and the uncluttered emotional honesty of her work. These poems chronicle the stark contrasts that mark the lives of two sisters. A quirky adolescence and early adulthood is thrust upon one while the other s life is measured out in slow ounces. I was captured by this passionate and loving recounting of tragic years and dislocations. Eloise Klein Healy, Final Judge, 2009 Benjamin Saltman Prize"

Rachel Contreni Flynn s intimate collectionexamines exile from the self, the body, and from family and society as it exacts the dangerous and necessary work of remembering. InTongue, the narrative lens shifts breathtakingly between trauma, wonder, insight and irony, each laboring in concert to force the story to its rightful unfolding. Flynn demonstrates that identity is shaped by, and the self owes its very survival to, thatunfoldingwhere beauty is crafted from toxin, music from intractable anger and with thetongue(as bothlanguageand tough muscle), one must feast on solitude in order to sing out bravely the root-note of grace. These wise, tender poems urge us to love this world, though it is flawed/. . .love it entirely, or be lost all the while recognizing that such an undertaking is no less than the daily rescue of one s own life from exile. Chad Sweeney

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Rachel Contreni Flynn, the winner of this year s Benjamin Saltman Award, honors us with the grace of her language, her strength of purpose as a poet, and the uncluttered emotional honesty of her work. These poems chronicle the stark contrasts that mark the lives of two sisters. A quirky adolescence and early adulthood is thrust upon one while the other s life is measured out in slow ounces. I was captured by this passionate and loving recounting of tragic years and dislocations. Eloise Klein Healy, Final Judge, 2009 Benjamin Saltman Prize

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Reseña del editor

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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• Verlag: Red Hen Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1597094757
• ISBN 13: 9781597094757
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 96