Anodyne
Khadijah Queen
(Author)
Description
The poems that make up Anodyne consider the small moments that enrapture us alongside the daily threats of cataclysm. Formally dynamic and searingly personal, Anodyne asks us to recognize the echoes of history that litter the landscape of our bodies as we navigate a complex terrain of survival and longing. With an intimate and multivocal dexterity, these poems acknowledge the simultaneous existence of joy and devastation, knowledge and ignorance, grief and love, endurance and failure--all of the contrast and serendipity that comes with the experience of being human. If the body is a world, or a metaphor for the world, for what disappears and what remains, for what we feel and what we cover up, then how do we balance fate and choice, pleasure and pain? Through a combination of formal lyrics, delicate experiments, sharp rants, musical litany, and moments of wit that uplift and unsettle, Queen's poems show us the terrible consequences and stunning miracles of how we choose to live.Product Details
Price
$15.95
$14.83
Publisher
Tin House Books
Publish Date
August 18, 2020
Pages
104
Dimensions
5.9 X 8.9 X 0.4 inches | 0.35 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781947793804
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About the Author
Khadijah Queen, PhD, is the author of six books, most recently Anodyne, published by Tin House Books in 2020 and I'm So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On, published by YesYes Books in 2017. She is an associate professor of creative writing at Virginia Tech.
Reviews
Khadijah Queen outdoes herself with captivating poems examining the dualities of joy and pain, love and loss, knowing and ignorance.--Ms. Magazine
These poems are a reminder of all that is still possible in this world, no matter how much tragedy surrounds us.--Refinery29
Accomplished. . . . Queen's collection reads as a testament to the power of poetry to raise awareness and shape the world.--Publishers Weekly
Exploring themes of body as metaphor and as physical being, joy, grief, love, ignorance, endurance, and choice, Queen once again shows herself to be a master of zooming in on small moments and panning out to big questions.--Shondaland
Anodyne captivates with poignant, resilient poems; ones that face toughness with lucidity: of losing family and facing landscapes full of 'untended loveliness of the forsaken.' All of which builds an affective and luminous sense of record, of observing and perceiving. . . . Queen's commanding style: building the poetic edges that are laced with endeavors, hurdles, grace, and truth into an eye-wide and powerfully deep poetry collection.--Prageeta Sharma, author of Grief Sequence
Anodyne is a study of form & cavedwell, feminism as foresight, and archives the articulation of black excellence & resilience. . . . Many (re)discoveries are assured with the preciseness of Queen's poetic legend.--Mahogany L. Browne, author of Black Girl Magic
These poems are a reminder of all that is still possible in this world, no matter how much tragedy surrounds us.--Refinery29
Accomplished. . . . Queen's collection reads as a testament to the power of poetry to raise awareness and shape the world.--Publishers Weekly
Exploring themes of body as metaphor and as physical being, joy, grief, love, ignorance, endurance, and choice, Queen once again shows herself to be a master of zooming in on small moments and panning out to big questions.--Shondaland
Anodyne captivates with poignant, resilient poems; ones that face toughness with lucidity: of losing family and facing landscapes full of 'untended loveliness of the forsaken.' All of which builds an affective and luminous sense of record, of observing and perceiving. . . . Queen's commanding style: building the poetic edges that are laced with endeavors, hurdles, grace, and truth into an eye-wide and powerfully deep poetry collection.--Prageeta Sharma, author of Grief Sequence
Anodyne is a study of form & cavedwell, feminism as foresight, and archives the articulation of black excellence & resilience. . . . Many (re)discoveries are assured with the preciseness of Queen's poetic legend.--Mahogany L. Browne, author of Black Girl Magic
