Spilled and Gone (Paperback)
Poems
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
Pages: 72
ISBN: 9780822965725
Published: 16th April 2019
Casemate UK Academic
(click here for international delivery rates)
Order within the next 3 hours, 49 minutes to get your order processed the next working day!
Need a currency converter? Check XE.com for live rates
Spilled and Gone, Jessica Greenbaum's third collection marries the world through metaphor so that a serrated knife on its back is as harmless as "the ocean on a shiny day," and two crossed daisies in Emily Dickinson's herbarium "might double as the logo /for a roving band of pacifists."At heart, the poems themselves seek peace through close observation's associative power to reveal cohering relationships and meaning within the 21st century-and during its dark turn. In the everyday tally of "the good against the violence" the speaker asks, "why can't the line around the block on the free night/ at the museum stand for everything, why can't the shriek /of the girls in summer waves . . . / be the call and response of all people living on the earth?" A descendant of the New York school and the second wave, Greenbaum "spills" details that she simultaneously replaces-through the spiraling revelations only poems with an authentic life-force of humanism can nurture.