John Sibley Williams

Skin Memory (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

2020 Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist in Poetry Finalist in Poetry for the National Indie Excellence Awards A stark, visceral collection of free verse and prose poetry, Skin Memory scours a wild landscape haunted by personal tragedy and the cruel consequences of human acts in search of tenderness and regeneration. In this book of daring and introspection, John Sibley Williams considers the capriciousness of youth, the terrifying loss of cultural identity and self-identity, and what it means to live in an imperfect world. He reveals each body as made up of all bodies, histories, and shared dreams of the future. In these poems absence can be held, the body's dust is just dust, and though childhood is but a poorly edited memory and even our well-intentioned gestures tend toward ruin, Williams nonetheless says, "I'm pretty sure, everything within us says something beautiful."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Backwaters Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781935218531
• Artikelnr.: 72460425

Autorenporträt

John Sibley Williams serves as editor of the Inflectionist Review and works as a literary agent. He is the author of four poetry collections, including As One Fire Consumes Another, which won the Orison Poetry Prize; Disinheritance; and Controlled Hallucinations. He lives in Portland, Oregon.   

Inhaltsangabe

Skin Memory
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Snake. Tree. Rope. Wall.
Dewpoint
Hekla (Revised)
St. Helens [1980]
Then We Will Make Our Own Demons
It Was a Golden Age of Monsters
Sons of No One
Spectral 
Symptoms of Shelter 
Everything Must Belong Somewhere 
There is Still 
Nocturne
New Farmer’s Almanac 
On Being Told: You Must Learn to Burn Like This 
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Advice Picked up Along the Way 
Swing 
Adagio 
Killing Lesson 
For C. D. Wright 
Rules of Common Landscape 
On Being Told: You Must Learn to Pray 
Always Greener 
Dear Nowhere 
Tonight’s Synonyms for Sky 
Closure 
Prelude to Again 
As Above, So Below 
Star Count 
As a Child, Drawing Purgatory 
Off Season 
Variations on a Theme 
Fog 
Death is a Work in Progress 
Poison Oak 
The Animal 
Compared to Even the Smallest Star, the Moon is a Child
On Being Told: White is a Color without Hue 
Salt is for Curing 
Than the Dead 
Inventing Fire in Northern Michigan in December 
One Horse Town 
Absence Makes the Heart 
We Can Make a Home of It Still 
On Being Told: You Must Learn to Love the Violence 
Father as Papercut 
Says a Father to the Night from His Emptied Nest 
Outage 
A Brief History of a Perfect Storm 
The Length of the Field 
Natural History 
Anything Can Be Made a Halo 
After-Bruise 
Sanctum 
Before, and the Birds After 
[this is only a test] 
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Forge