What Word for This

Each poem in What Word for This explores a word from another language that expresses something we have no term for in English. Certainly language shapes our experience even as it attempts to express it. In these luminous poems, Marion Boyer explores myriad human experiences of time, space, memory, longing, and the ineffable.

About the author

Boyer is a Communication professor emerita from Kalamazoo Valley Community College. Her book, Ice Hours, was selected for the 2021 Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize, and was released in 2023. Boyer is also the author of The Sea Was Never Far (Main Street Rag, 2019) and the Clock of the Long Now (Mayapple Press, 2009). She is a two-time winner of the Grayson Books Chapbook Contest her collection Composing the Rain won and was published in 2014.

Product details

• Authors: Marion Boyer
• Publisher: Grayson Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2023
• EAN: 9798985544275
• ISBN: 979-8-9855442-7-5
• No. of pages: 50
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 4 mm
• Weight: 89 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics