Cry Back My Sea
Author | : Sarah Arvio |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2021-08-10 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780593319512 |
ISBN-13 | : 0593319516 |
Rating | : 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Download or read book Cry Back My Sea written by Sarah Arvio and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stunning poems of obsession, loss, and the desire for a renewed self, from the award-winning poet “I thought I had left behind the darkness / of the heart,” Arvio confesses in the poem “Small War.” The love Arvio traces in these pages is indeed a battle, one in which the best-laid plans are shattered. Rarely has a poet tackled intimate love with so much invention and bravery. In poem after poem, we meet the troubling lover whose nearness and force undoes her. There are moments of reprieve: “my naked body and budding pleasure / in the weather of your presence. / Not whether your presence but how.” The voice is vulnerable, self-knowing, often funny; the poet seems to be writing these poems to save herself from a devastating passion. Her weapons are a cascade of brash, freely spoken lines and a powerful command of metaphor, wielded in a search for meaning and understanding. These breathtaking love poems make the collection Arvio’s most universal to date.