What Snakes Want

Kita Shantiris

5 Bewertungen von Goodreads

Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: Mayapple Press, 2015

1936419513 / 9781936419517

  • Softcover
  • Gebraucht
Alle Details anzeigen

Anbieter: World of Books (was SecondSale), Montgomery, IL, USAWorld of Books (was SecondSale)

Verkäufer/-in mit 5 Sternen

Verkäufer:in bei ZVAB seit 20. Dezember 2007

Softcover

Zustand: Gebraucht - Gut

EUR 3,84

 Versand gratis 
Versand innerhalb von USA

Anzahl: 1 verfügbar

In den Warenkorb
30 Tage kostenlose Rückgabe

Artikelbeschreibung des Verkäufers

Poetry. Slyly sexual, intense and funny, in WHAT SNAKES WANT Kita Shantiris strips secrets of their power by telling them. Running away and returning, burying and unearthing, she--and a cast that includes abused siblings, desperate spinsters, and an army medic--struggle to escape their shadows. Throughout, Shantiris' startling use of language animates her portraits. A psychologist who runs a non-profit mental health center, Shantiris faces trauma, yearning, love and loss head on. WHAT SNAKES WANT traverses a menacing, bleak landscape as its characters shed their ghosts. Sensuous love poems follow. Full of word play and mischief, never have oranges, or the word dictum, been racier. The haunting elegies in the final section breathe life into the dead. Fearless and compassionate, WHAT SNAKES WANT shines light in our dark places. You will return to these haunting poems again and again. Something edgy and intense haunts Kita Shantiris' poems, always threatening to flare up just outside their frames. Like a great auteur, she teases us with implication, with slow builds, the sneaky reveal, with what you can't yet see. Or, she'll give us a flash of aftermath, letting us glimpse a tub of red water where the violence has already taken place. Carefully orchestrating her pace, Shantiris lets things dawn on us, which contributes to the sense of delicious discovery one has in reading this collection. Wanderlust, an ode to coffee shops, an erotic poem set in a gaudy Laundromat, a child lying in bed hearing her abusive father come home.it's all here, articulate, compressed, suspenseful. It takes brandy to center me/glowing alone here. The reader will likely find herself glowing along with these poems.--Amy Gerstler, author of National Book Critics Award winner Bitter Angel and other collections Kita Shantiris is a poet whose work in this book glows with a naked, scalpel- sharp intelligence and a refreshing delight in language. Full of startlingly good poems--The Last Lake comes to mind and the title poem, especially--WHAT SNAKES WANT is a fine collection, and one of the most exciting I have read in recent years.--Patrick Chapman, poet, writer and screenwriter--including A Promiscuity of Spines: New and Selected Poems One could spend a lifetime with Kita's new and powerfully personal book of poetry, WHAT SNAKES WANT. The poems speak of a life replete with love, loss, pain, honesty, insight, longing, sensuality, and a deep unabashed unsentimental appreciation for the very gift of life itself. The poems are accessible yet abound with rich imagery, beautifully wrought observations of the natural world and of our very human behavior, and they do so with an intensity of feeling and care that ultimately resound with hope as they reach in and touch the soul.--Ed Harris, actor, screenwriter, director.…

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 00106373356

Titel
What Snakes Want
Autor
Kita Shantiris
Verlag
Mayapple Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2015
Zustand
Very Good
Einband
Paperback
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-10
1936419513
ISBN-13
9781936419517

World of Books (was SecondSale)

Montgomery, IL, USA

Verkäufer/-in mit 5 Sternen

Verkäufer:in bei ZVAB seit 20. Dezember 2007

Versandkosten innerhalb von USA

Artikel4 bis 12 Werktage3 bis 6 Werktage
Erster ArtikelEUR 0,00EUR 9,76
Die Versandzeiten werden von den Verkäuferinnen und Verkäufern festgelegt. Sie variieren je nach Versanddienstleister und Standort. Sendungen, die den Zoll passieren, können Verzögerungen unterliegen. Eventuell anfallende Abgaben oder Gebühren sind von der Käuferin bzw. dem Käufer zu tragen. Die Verkäuferin bzw. der Verkäufer kann Sie bezüglich zusätzlicher Versandkosten kontaktieren, um einen möglichen Anstieg der Versandkosten für Ihre Artikel auszugleichen.

Zahlungsarten

  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • American Express
  • Carte Bleue
  • Apple Pay
  • Google Pay

Shopbeschreibung

Founded in 2002, World of Books is a leading online destination for buying and selling both preloved and new books, committed to making sustainable reading accessible to all. With a mission to help people read more and waste less, World of Books offers a huge range of affordable, high-quality books — giving both new and preloved titles a second life. The company also operates World of Books – Sell Your Books, an easy-to-use platform that allows customers to trade in unwanted books for cash, helping to keep books in circulation while promoting sustainability. As a Certified B Corp, World of Books is driven by a vision to become the world’s largest and most sustainable dedicated online bookstore. The company measures its success through the positive environmental impact it creates, the value it provides to customers, and its ability to operate profitably while supporting its sustainable mission …

Unternehmensdaten der Verkäuferin bzw. des Verkäufers

SBYB, Inc.

900 Knell Rd
Montgomery, IL USA 60538