Animal Purpose. Michelle Y. Burke
Зарубежные стихи. Hollis Summers Poetry Prize
Animal Purpose
Год выпуска 0
isbn 9780821445488
Автор произведения Michelle Y. Burke
Жанр Зарубежные стихи
Серия Hollis Summers Poetry Prize
Издательство Ingram
In Animal Purpose, Michelle Y. Burke explores the lives of men and women as they stand poised between the desire to love and the compulsion to harm. In one poem, a woman teaches a farmhand the proper way to slaughter a truckload of chickens. In another, a couple confronts the recent loss of a loved one when a stranger makes an unexpected confession in a crowded restaurant. Set in both rural and urban spaces, these poems challenge received ideas about work, gender, and place. Danger blurs into beauty and back again. Burke scours the hard edges of the world to find “fleeting softness,” which she wishes “into the world like pollen that covers everything.”