Stay Safe

von Emma Hine

72 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

At the center of this stellar collection are three sisters and their imaginative fear of grief. Their great-uncle was bitten by a shark, their mother has a brain tumor, their neighbor hangs himself from a tree¿and to cope with these very real terrors, the oldest sister creates an intimate fantasy world. We hear stories of a mountain lion that slaughters a deer, a transparent body washed up on a beach, a selkie who ventures to shore and becomes their mother: ¿On land her pelt was heavy / like stewed velvet, so she taught herself / to take it off.¿ The sisters¿ environment of ocean and sand, forests and farmhouses, forms a lush backdrop to many of these poems. But later, as the speaker ages, we find ourselves in the mountains, in an art museum, in a spacecraft where a recorded voice ¿has the soft accent of someone only a generation or two removed from Earth.¿ The voice in these poems is the perfect mix of grief and imagination, quiet and explosion. Stay Safe is delicate and extraordinary, a powerful debut.

• ISBN: 9781946448682
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 05.01.2021
• Größe: 213 x 137 mm
• Verlag: Sarabande Books