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Inside Ball Lightning is a book-length memoir in verse that follows the growing distance between poet, Rainie Oet, and their brother Mark over the course of several years around the time of their grandmother's death. It traces a childhood full of competitive chess, Gameboys, ghosts, ESP, and ball lightning. Here, parents' childhoods merge with the poet's in a book that looks back across generations, and looks forward into the continuing implications of the family's immigration experience. Through its masterful craft and stunning attention to detail, Inside Ball Lightning attempts to reconcile terror and love, nostalgia and pain.…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
Inside Ball Lightning is a book-length memoir in verse that follows the growing distance between poet, Rainie Oet, and their brother Mark over the course of several years around the time of their grandmother's death. It traces a childhood full of competitive chess, Gameboys, ghosts, ESP, and ball lightning. Here, parents' childhoods merge with the poet's in a book that looks back across generations, and looks forward into the continuing implications of the family's immigration experience. Through its masterful craft and stunning attention to detail, Inside Ball Lightning attempts to reconcile terror and love, nostalgia and pain.
Autorenporträt
Rainie Oet is a nonbinary writer and game designer. They are the author of two other books: Porcupine in Freefall (winner of the Bright Hill Press Poetry Book Competition, 2019) and Glorious Veils of Diane (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2021). Read more at rainieoet.com.