Alessandra Lynch

Wish Ave (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Wish Ave is about how vital intimate human conversation is to transformation and love.

Using a dream-like narrative, these poems combine three distinctive voices as it simultaneously loses and gains connections to others, plants, places, memories, and beyond. Memories are reanimated, reassessed, and re-envisioned in these whimsical poems. Voices carry the history of a life, the lives of those they've lived with, known, encountered, and interacted with. The two voices and the speaker's voice carry the poems that cross time, relationships, boundaries between life and death. The voices create deep portraits of mentors, family members, and friends. Loneliness, tragedy, art, death, music, communion, connection, and consolation are all found here. These highly lyric poems have big emotional stakes.

There is palpable intensity, almost like the book is vibrating with trepidation, sorrow, fear, love, vibrancy, and uncertainty. The poems move water-like through visions and memory, personal myth, and prophecy. They don't feel beholden to expectations but free and insistent upon existing in their own space, on their own terms. There is a lot of risk in these poems, and the reward is in the connections and space between them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Alice James Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781949944389
• Artikelnr.: 72354389

Autorenporträt

Alessandra Lynch is the author of four other poetry collections: Pretty Tripwire, Sails the Wind Left Behind, It was a terrible cloud at twilight, and Daylily Called It a Dangerous Moment (winner of the Balcones Prize, finalist for the LA Times Book Award and the UNT Rilke Prize, listed as a NY Times top ten poetry books of 2017). Her work has appeared in the American Poetry Review, The New England Review, The Kenyon Review, Plougshares, and other journals. Alessandra has received residencies from MacDowell, Yaddo, the Lannan Foundation, and the Vermont Studio Center, and she has been the recipient of a Barbara Deming Award and a Creative Renewal Fellowship Award. She has also been a featured blogger for the Poetry Foundation's Harriet Books. Currently, Alessandra serves as Butler University's poet in residence where she teaches in the undergraduate and MFA programs.