Each Knuckle with Sugar - Levine, Sarah

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Résumé :
Sarah Levine's Each Knuckle with Sugar is a soft yet powerful deep-dive into love and grief told through multiple fascinating perspectives. This powerful collection looks at longing and grief with sensitivity and care. What does it mean for desire to be born out of loss? How are relationships born? Each Knuckle with Sugar answers these questions with precise language and intimate details that pull the reader in close. In these poems, the complexity of love is teased out with the gentlest comb, revealing stark truths about connection. The precision of line breaks and word choice in this collection is stunning. These poems feature nature imagery mixed with incisive details about the body. In these pieces, love is an all encompassing and well-studied geography. Each Knuckle with Sugar is a quietly devastating but ultimately hopeful look at burgeoning love. Simply put, Sarah Levine has written one of contemporary poetry's strongest collections of poems about the mixture of grieving and loving. This collection also features a bespoke interview with the writer at then end of the book, delving deeper into the craft, influences, and life behind their work....

Biographie:
Sarah Levine is a Pushcart Prize nominee and author of two chapbooks, Take Me Home, a finalist for the New Women's Voices Chapbook Competition (Finishing Line Press, 2020) and Her Man (New Megaphone Press, 2014). Her work has appeared in Passages North, Best New Poets anthology, Green Mountains Review, and The Paris American among other publications. She earned her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, MAT from Smith College, and BA from UMASS Amherst Honors College. Levine is a 2023-2024 Teachers for Global Classrooms Fulbright fellow and teaches 7th Grade ELA and 12th Grade AP Literature at Williston Northampton School where she currently holds the Richard C. Gregory Endowed Chair. Each Knuckle with Sugar won the Driftwood Press Open Reading Contest and is her debut collection.

Sommaire:
Sarah Levine's Each Knuckle with Sugar is a soft yet powerful deep-dive into love and grief told through multiple fascinating perspectives. This powerful collection looks at longing and grief with sensitivity and care. What does it mean for desire to be born out of loss? How are relationships born? Each Knuckle with Sugar answers these questions with precise language and intimate details that pull the reader in close. In these poems, the complexity of love is teased out with the gentlest comb, revealing stark truths about connection. The precision of line breaks and word choice in this collection is stunning. These poems feature nature imagery mixed with incisive details about the body. In these pieces, love is an all encompassing and well-studied geography. Each Knuckle with Sugar is a quietly devastating but ultimately hopeful look at burgeoning love. Simply put, Sarah Levine has written one of contemporary poetry's strongest collections of poems about the mixture of grieving and loving....