Flourish
Dora Malech
(Author)
Description
In Flourish, multiple meanings catch light--as the leaves of growing things might, or the facets of cut gemstones, or a signal mirror flashing in distress. These poems explore themes of thriving, growth, innovation, and survival, while immersing the reader in the pleasures of language itself--the "flourish" of linguistic gesture, play, form, turn, and adornment.Here, the lens zooms in and out to micro and macro levels, asking us to see the familiar with new eyes. The collection engages with the materials of the worlds we inhabit--natural worlds and those of our own making--and a full spectrum of poetry's own materials, building worlds of words and illuminating the shadowed terrain of our interior landscapes as well.
Product Details
Price
$15.95
$14.83
Publisher
Carnegie-Mellon University Press
Publish Date
February 18, 2020
Pages
96
Dimensions
5.5 X 8.4 X 0.3 inches | 0.3 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780887486555
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About the Author
Dora Malech is assistant professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of three books of poetry. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry, the Best American Poetry, and numerous other publications. She lives in Baltimore.
Reviews
"What a brilliant book. Page after page one finds lines one wants to write down. Here is poetry that is unafraid to see us clearly. In this time of injustice, what can one poet do? How can that one 'pair of wings on fire' lift us out of our predicament? Open this book to find out. Find that there is, after all, what this poet calls this 'pesky tenderness.' Open this book and see for yourself how 'gratitude that one expends expands.' This is real poetry, friends."--Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic
"Malech wields an elegant knife. A reader wowed by her brilliant imagery might overlook the terror in a line like, 'Though his eyes are open, the dead man is not all that moved by the stars.' These poems examine the violence about us. Malech's landscapes are full of 'bloody lullabies, ' 'sweet asylum, ' 'lexical kaleidoscopes, ' and sentences 'bursting at as if all else / were seams, field sown to open, / reveling in its unraveling.' Flourish is dazzling."--Terrance Hayes, author of Lighthead
"Announcing what's most at stake in its own title, Flourish is about the ardent encounters that irradiate a life into meaning. In poems about the textures of the world, the currents of thought and feeling within the self, and the intricate amplitude of language itself."--Rick Barot, author of The Galleons
"Malech wields an elegant knife. A reader wowed by her brilliant imagery might overlook the terror in a line like, 'Though his eyes are open, the dead man is not all that moved by the stars.' These poems examine the violence about us. Malech's landscapes are full of 'bloody lullabies, ' 'sweet asylum, ' 'lexical kaleidoscopes, ' and sentences 'bursting at as if all else / were seams, field sown to open, / reveling in its unraveling.' Flourish is dazzling."--Terrance Hayes, author of Lighthead
"Announcing what's most at stake in its own title, Flourish is about the ardent encounters that irradiate a life into meaning. In poems about the textures of the world, the currents of thought and feeling within the self, and the intricate amplitude of language itself."--Rick Barot, author of The Galleons
