ISBN: 9781968507039 - splashed things (5 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

paperback. Zustand: New. Condition Notes: New from the publisher.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 80 pages. 9.00x6.00x9.00 inches. In Stock.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - WINNER of the 2026 CALIBA Golden Poppy Award in Poetry"In my new life, I must learn everything again," begins Splashed Things, Leigh Lucas's dark humored and deeply moving debut that examines the chaotic terrain of grief following the suicide of a former boyfriend. With startling honesty and emotionalprecision, these poems tell the story of a woman in her twenties navigating loss, fromthe funeral service and her dead-end job, to her therapist's office and the subways ofNew York City, revealing the way her beloved's death infiltrates every corner of her life.The speaker searches for traces of the departed in unlikely placesthe physics ofsplashes, the history of seasickness, the science of depressionwhile confronting thelimitations of elegy and the futility of trying to contain sorrow in words. Splashed Thingsis not a neat arc toward healing, but a testimony to the unwieldy shape of mourning andthe persistence of love in its wake.Selected by Maya C. Popa as winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize for its emotionalcourage, inventive language, and haunting beauty, Leigh Lucas's Splashed Things marksthe arrival of a powerful new voice in contemporary poetry.…

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 80 pages. 9.00x6.00x9.00 inches. In Stock.