Full Description
'The lyric poem works both to slow down our world, teasing out the many disparate elements of our experience, and to reorient it, by exposing an entire universe of instincts, paradoxes, and mysteries beneath all that we know, or think we know. In these poems by Anna Selby, human beings are always gravitating from earth and air towards water. It is as if the transcendence they seek (the desire to "leap/hot out of your own life") requires a physical departure from the very medium they inhabit. Selby's ringing titles evoke not just a subject but a sensibility, and her versatile forms and deftly run-on lines very persuasively re-enact the thrill of sense experience and the shape of thought.' Chandrahas Choudhury
Contents
The First Time I Saw Your Winter
The Second Dance
Where I Come From
Dunwich Burning
The Early Shift
Washing My Father
Death of the Fish March
Swimming in the Abandoned Quarry
Is it Too Late for the Bath
An Intimate Dinner with Raised Voices
The Lost Art of Disappearing
Recipes for Quiet Sons
The Many Reasons
How Sundays Would Sound if People Described Them
52 Versions of Hope
Timelapse
Duck Eggs and Keats Instead of Grace
