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Brute : : Poems

Skaja, Emily. Book - 2019 811.6 Sk 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4.3 out of 5

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Emily Skaja’s debut collection is a fiery, hypnotic book that confronts the dark questions and menacing silences around gender, sexuality, and violence. Brute arises, brave and furious, from the dissolution of a relationship, showing how such endings necessitate self-discovery and reinvention. The speaker of these poems is a sorceress, a bride, a warrior, a lover, both object and agent, ricocheting among ways of knowing and being known. Each incarnation squares itself up against ideas of feminine virtue and sin, strength and vulnerability, love and rage, as it closes in on a hard-won freedom. Brute is absolutely sure of its capacity to insist not only on the truth of what it says but on the truth of its right to say it. “What am I supposed to say: I’m free?” the first poem asks. The rest of the poems emphatically discover new ways to answer. This is a timely winner of the Walt Whitman Award, and an introduction to an unforgettable voice.

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A pleasant surprise submitted by dntanzer on August 29, 2019, 12:11am I picked up this book because of the beautiful cover and ended up loving it. The writing is gorgeous and vivid and the poems are very interesting

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PUBLISHED
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2019]
Year Published: 2019
Description: 74 pages ; 23 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781555978358
1555978355

SUBJECTS
Poetry.
American poetry -- 21st century.
Poetry.