Utvidet returrett til 31. januar 2024

Other Times, Midnight

Other Times, Midnightav Andrea Ballou
Om Other Times, Midnight

In Other Times, Midnight, her debut collection, Andrea Ballou explores the aftermath of loss-death, divorce, and departures-and asks the toughest questions: how do we contend with grief and remorse, and where does the spirit go to wait out trauma? Ballou's poems fight our "impulse to not speak," aware that naming, and that speech itself, is a matter of life and death. Her startling and often humorous images rooted in the fields, forests and domesticity of rural life are juxtaposed with oblique, at times irreverent, adaptations of Celtic and Greek myth and biblical stories. For Ballou, language is both tool and weapon, as useful and durable as a hoe, wheelbarrow, sword, thread. Caught "in the mouth of midnight," these poems wrestle with the numinous, their voices-cranky and cajoling, always compassionate and vulnerable-urging us toward the fullness of being human, daring us, despite it all, to love again.

Vis mer
  • Språk:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780892556083
  • Bindende:
  • Paperback
  • Sider:
  • 64
  • Utgitt:
  • 1. april 2025
  • Dimensjoner:
  • 137x210x0 mm.
  • BLACK NOVEMBER
Leveringstid: Kan forhåndsbestilles
  • Boken er tilgjengelig for forhåndsbestilling 3 måneder før publiseringsdatoen

Beskrivelse av Other Times, Midnight

In Other Times, Midnight, her debut collection, Andrea Ballou explores the aftermath of loss-death, divorce, and departures-and asks the toughest questions: how do we contend with grief and remorse, and where does the spirit go to wait out trauma? Ballou's poems fight our "impulse to not speak," aware that naming, and that speech itself, is a matter of life and death. Her startling and often humorous images rooted in the fields, forests and domesticity of rural life are juxtaposed with oblique, at times irreverent, adaptations of Celtic and Greek myth and biblical stories. For Ballou, language is both tool and weapon, as useful and durable as a hoe, wheelbarrow, sword, thread. Caught "in the mouth of midnight," these poems wrestle with the numinous, their voices-cranky and cajoling, always compassionate and vulnerable-urging us toward the fullness of being human, daring us, despite it all, to love again.

Brukervurderinger av Other Times, Midnight



Finn lignende bøker
Boken Other Times, Midnight finnes i følgende kategorier:

Gjør som tusenvis av andre bokelskere

Abonner på vårt nyhetsbrev og få rabatter og inspirasjon til din neste leseopplevelse.