Ritual and Bit
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- Synopsis
- Winner of the 2015 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize, selected by Mary Ruefle! The landscape of Ritual and Bit is littered with the speaker's past: empty 40s, old posters, family lies, and fragmented missives. Internal struggles play out in the detritus of long-ago. Yet even as the speaker attempts to cautiously map his movements, effect a survival, and navigate beyond his past, he faces emotional fissures wrought by the present. Throughout the book, he restlessly searches for ways to regain control of his life, partly through ceremonies, prayers, and devotions, and partly through lyrical force. The danger is palpable among wolves and claws, boxcutter and jackknife. There's both caution here and a willingness to abandon caution if anything or anyone could be reached. The poems ask, what makes a home? What should we expect when we are so determined to live in a world where everything is disappearing? "Trust me, says what you are about to read to your beautiful ear." And I do, I trust these quiet poems of deep loss as they spiral their way in and hold my attention, as they meander the strange stream of their own making, and arrive at that wonderful old unnameable place, poetry's heart. --Mary Ruefle, judge
- Copyright:
- 2016
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780996220651
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780996220644
- Publisher:
- Saturnalia Books
- Date of Addition:
- 06/08/16
- Copyrighted By:
- Robert Ostrom
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Poetry, Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.