Fingerspell - Lindsay Illich

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Résumé :
Lindsay Illich's Fingerspell is not only a book of elegy, motherhood, and eros...

Biographie:
Lindsay Illich is the author of Earthwhere, (Black Lawrence Press, 2024), Fingerspell (Black Lawrence Press, 2020), Rile & Heave (Texas Review Press, 2017), and the chapbook Heteroglossia (Anchor & Plume, 2016). Rile & Heave won the Texas Review Press Breakthrough Prize in Poetry. She also co-authored Teach Living Poets (National Council of Teachers of English, 2021). She teaches at Curry College in Milton, Massachusetts....

Sommaire:
it's also a book of astonishing, idiosyncratic seeing- in which knee caps are like stone fruit, the city of Washington DC represents the remains of an idea, grief is an accumulation of snow into which/the heart sinks, the act of waiting a splint//my body's wrapped against, and the sound of a running vacuum is evidence of love. I'm deeply moved by so many of these poems- by their articulations of loss and love, certainly, but also their visionary hopefulness. We are, Illich tells us, water/pouring through letters, and an eclipse, she reminds us, has the power to lift us above our societal fury- if only momentarily. --Wayne Miller...