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At the center of this stellar collection are three sisters and their imaginative fear of grief.
Their great-uncle was bitten by a shark, their mother has a brain tumor, their neighbor hangs himself from a tree—and to cope with these very real terrors, the oldest sister creates an intimate fantasy world.
We hear stories of a mountain lion that slaughters a deer, a transparent body washed up on a beach, a selkie who ventures to shore and becomes their mother: “On land her pelt was heavy / like stewed velvet, so she taught herself / to take it off.†The sisters’ environment of ocean and sand, forests and farmhouses, forms a lush backdrop to many of these poems.
But later, as the speaker ages, we find ourselves in the mountains, in an art museum, in a spacecraft where a recorded voice “has the soft accent of someone only a generation or two removed from Earth.†The voice in these poems is the perfect mix of grief and imagination, quiet and explosion.
Stay Safe is delicate and extraordinary, a powerful debut.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:72 pages, No
- Publisher:Sarabande Books, Incorporated
- Publication Date:18/02/2021
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- ISBN:9781946448682
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:72 pages, No
- Publisher:Sarabande Books, Incorporated
- Publication Date:18/02/2021
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- ISBN:9781946448682