SAINT FRIEND

These are the people we are. Saint Friend, / carry me when I am tired and carry yourself. / Let's keep singing the songs we don't live by / let's meet tomorrow.

Saint Friend is a book of empathy. Its ten lyric poems are troubled with the prospect of satisfying the wants and needs of others. While some of the poems take place in realistic settings or concern real people--an airport, Amelia Earhart--this is a book where fantasy and reality are ultimately indistinguishable. SaintFriend is also a book about how we continue living while overwhelmed by loss and how we band together to survive. It is a freewheeling explosion of celebrations, elegies, narratives, psychologically raw persona pieces. It is at times bizarre and at times heartbreaking. It is, as the title suggests, a book exalting love among friends in our scattered times.

Info autore

Carl Adamshick lives in Portland, Oregon, where he is cofounder and editor of Tavern Books, a nonprofit poetry press dedicated to the preservation of books and book culture. He is the author of Curses and Wishes.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Carl Adamshick
• Editore: Carnegie-Mellon University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9780887486432
• ISBN: 978-0-88748-643-2
• Pagine: 72
• Dimensioni: 135 mm x 225 mm x 5 mm
• Peso: 124 g
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica > Lirica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata