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Shields & Shards & Stitches & Songs
Dan Beachy-Quick
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Description for Shields & Shards & Stitches & Songs
Paperback. Num Pages: 48 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 135 x 3. Weight in Grams: 45.
Shields call out to the violence from which they also protect us, a paradox that belongs as well to the images etched upon them. In these poems seven shields each suffer a process, one of wounding, and of healing the wound back to song. Shards are what remain of shields, fragment words relict from the first poem. Shards become stitches, barest suture of meaning made only from what language in the shard remains. Last, built upon the stitches, keeping intact what letters and words there remain, seven songs to replace seven shields, born out of a violence they seek only ... Read more
Shields call out to the violence from which they also protect us, a paradox that belongs as well to the images etched upon them. In these poems seven shields each suffer a process, one of wounding, and of healing the wound back to song. Shards are what remain of shields, fragment words relict from the first poem. Shards become stitches, barest suture of meaning made only from what language in the shard remains. Last, built upon the stitches, keeping intact what letters and words there remain, seven songs to replace seven shields, born out of a violence they seek only ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Omnidawn Publishing United States
Number of pages
48
Condition
New
Number of Pages
48
Place of Publication
Richmond, CA, United States
ISBN
9781632430076
SKU
V9781632430076
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