Ricochet Script - Softcover

Van De Kamp, Alexandra

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1736672118 ISBN 13: 9781736672112

Verlag: Next Page Press, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

Alexandra van de Kamp's Ricochet Script examines life as a plot slipping from our hands, veering in unexpected directions as years coalesce behind us. These poems bargain with time as a foreign, surreal, and elusive entity, where whole days can feel as if they were "written/in someone else's script." In vivid, at times playful musings, van de Kamp grapples with midlife, loss, and the strangeness of the body, while never forgetting the unrelenting beauty of being alive. These poems invoke a wide range of storylines, from Hitchcock's Lifeboat and spy thrillers to aging parents, to confront the unpredictable and ricocheting world.

Alexandra van de Kamp tells us "I want to make sense of abundance." In her beautifully wrought poems, we experience the sheer delight of all the sights, smells, and sounds of this world. Yet few poets are as deft at simultaneously evoking the precarity and consequent tenderness of existence. Van de Kamp's is a world made magical through art. She is canny, funny, filmic, but she can also stop your heart with the sudden apprehension of how time moves through us, "coaxing us / to bear something so much larger than ourselves."

--Sheila Black, co-editor of Beauty is a Verb, author of Iron Ardent

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Alexandra van de Kamp is the Executive Director for Gemini Ink, San Antonio's Writing Arts Center. Her two earlier collections of poems are Kiss/Hierarchy (2016) and The Park of Upside-Down Chairs (2010). She has published five chapbooks, including Dear Jean Seberg, which won the 2010 Burnside Review Chapbook Contest. Her poems have been published nationwide in journals such as The Cincinnati Review, Connecticut Review, The Texas Observer, Denver Quarterly, Cider Press Review, and Sweet: A Literary Confection, Tahoma Literary Review.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Next Page Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1736672118
• ISBN 13: 9781736672112
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 86
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Buchpark GmbH; gpsr@buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Deutschland