Body Braille - Softcover

Gylys, Beth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1604542608 ISBN 13: 9781604542608

Verlag: IRIS PR, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

Body Braille by Beth Gylys is a collection that explores the failures and complications of existing in the world as a sentient being. Broken into five sections, four of the first five focus around a particular sense: touch, taste, vision/sight, and hearing. The book's final section--comprised of a crown of elegiac sonnets--follows a man after he loses his wife as he fights through the initial stages of grief. The collection--bookended by poems of intimacy and death--moves through the senses, reimagining the possibilities and failures of the body, and ending in death/life after excruciating loss. The collection is one undergirded by loss but also threaded through with resilience, a resilience that expresses itself as humor, as defiance, as longing, and as survival. Ultimately, the collection attempts to gain purchase on our humanity through its exploration of sensual and bodily experience.

Über diesen Titel

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

A Professor at Georgia State University and award-winning writer, Beth Gylys has published three collections of poetry (Sky Blue Enough to Drink, Spot in the Dark and Bodies that Hum) and two chapbooks (Matchbook and Balloon Heart). Recipient of a fellowship to attend the MacDowell Colony, her work has been featured on the Writers Almanac, Poetry Daily and Verse Daily, and she has had poetry published in many anthologies and journals including Rattle, Barrow Street, Paris Review, Antioch Review, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Boston Review, and The Southern Review.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: IRIS PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1604542608
• ISBN 13: 9781604542608
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 92
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Lightning Source LLC; lsicustomersupport@ingramcontent.com; ; Heil Quaker Blvd 1246; Lavergne; Tennessee; 37086; USA
• Verantwortliche Person: Buchpark GmbH; gpsr@buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Deutschland