
The Wild Delight of Wild Things
Brian Turner
(Author)Description
The poems are also a love letter to our planet during the ongoing sixth mass extinction. Intertwining this immense grief, Turner explores the hybrid borderlands of genre, and the meditations on love and loss blur the boundaries between poetry and lyric prose. In Italian, the word "stanza" is rooted in the word "room."
And so, stanza by stanza, room by room, page by page, we draft ourselves forward into the imagination, our arms filled with all that we can carry from the days gone by. This is the art of survival. Profound grief teaches us how to dwell in the house of memory--that vibrant temporal landscape of the past--where we might live with the dead we love once more.
Product Details
Publisher | Alice James Books |
Publish Date | August 08, 2023 |
Pages | 100 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9781949944532 |
Dimensions | 8.9 X 5.9 X 0.5 inches | 0.5 pounds |
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Reviews
"These candid, tender, and beautiful poems bring a cosmic dimension to grief, while offering an affirming understanding of humanity's shared experience."
--Publishers Weekly
"Brian Turner's The Wild Delight of Wild Things brought me to my knees, kissed the top of my head, and gently gave my heart back to me. What do we mean when we say we loved and lost someone? This profoundly beautiful book begins inside a life-changing relationship and extends with graceful tendrils out into the world, reminding us that by sharing our experiences we make an endless spiral form stretching out to everyone and everything. A tender heart curl. An epic love poem."
--Lidia Yuknavitch
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