Never Just a Game - Softcover

Engelhardt, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1962405893 ISBN 13: 9781962405898

Verlag: Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2026

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Never Just a Game explores how the often-overlooked human practice of playing games can inform our lived experiences from the intimate and domestic to the cultural and historical. Poems here consider Goldilocks and Peter Pumpkin Eater, historical and contemporary wars, and the long struggle of working people. The games themselves drive the sound and forms of the poems-from short narratives to lyrical observation to small experiments. Throughout, there is yearning-for connection with other people and for living fully in each fleeting moment. Through it all are the tabletop games that conjure these stories, games from the Victorian Era to the present. And behind them is the question of how games speak to us as we gather at a table-friends, families, new companions-to craft a story together.

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James Engelhardt's poems have appeared in the North American Review, Black Fox Literary Magazine, Blood Orange Review, Sheila-Na-Gig, Slant, South Carolina Review, Terrain.org, Qu Literary Magazine, Fourth River, and many others. His ecopoetry manifesto is "The Language Habitat," and his first book, Bone Willows, is available from Boreal Books, an imprint of Red Hen Press. He lives in the South Carolina Upstate and is a lecturer in the English Department at Furman University. Find more at his website: https://www.jamesengelhardt.com

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Sheila-Na-Gig Editions
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1962405893
• ISBN 13: 9781962405898
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 100
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