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We Shed Our Skin Like Dynamite by Conyer Clayton (English) Paperback Book
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- 9781771835091
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- ISBN
- 9781771835091
- Book Title
- We Shed Our Skin like Dynamite
- Item Length
- 7.9in
- Publisher
- Guernica Editions, Incorporated
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.4in
- Genre
- Poetry
- Topic
- Canadian, General
- Item Width
- 5in
- Item Weight
- 3.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 78 Pages
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In her debut collection of poetry, Conyer Clayton hovers in the ether, grasping wildly for a fleeting sense of certitude. Through experiences with addiction and co-dependence, sex and art, nature and death, she grapples for transcendence while exploring what it means to disengage. What is revealed when you allow yourself to truly feel? What do you ask for to carry you into life, and where do you land when this fails? And when you are finally, beautifully, emptied out, who are you? The poems in We Shed Our Skin Like Dynamite wonder aloud amidst tangled revelations, and yearn to be lifted away.
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Publisher
Guernica Editions, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1771835095
ISBN-13
9781771835091
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13038844038
Product Key Features
Book Title
We Shed Our Skin like Dynamite
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Canadian, General
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
78 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.9in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
3.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
20
Lc Classification Number
Pr9199.4.C554w4 2020
Reviews
"The poems in this stunning debut construct a world by colliding its sharpest angles ... Clayton's speaker emerges from the darkness of grief into "the space between / earth and sky," a realm of generous possibility, where poetry begins." --Kiki Petrosino, Author of Witch Wife and Hymn for the Black Terrific, "Some of her poems are based on form, some surreal, some are bracing lyrics -- all feature vivid images propelled by artful repetition. Associations among the images detour strict logic, but pull the reader or listener along to wherever she wants to take us." --Jean Van Loon, author of Building on River, Previous Words of Praise and/ or Awards:Poetry best draws me in when a confluence of things occurs: language, narrative experience, and meaning that extends out of the poem itself to invoke insight or an insightful moment. The best poetry moves away from certain things too: cliché, stock phrasing, and a certain narcissism of existing only for the sake of itself.Seedsresisted all the right things and moved towards all the right things to captivate. The more times I read the poem, the more it revealed to me in terms of the narrative situation. The line level drama here, too, was well considered as the narrator moves from the burning to the woods, to the boardrooms. Jarred perception sets time out of the ordinary and I was reminded of the craft of the great American poet, James Tate, who is adept at leaps and gaps for the sake of creating uncomfortableness and surreal perception. Consider the impact of the line,Mortgage research and persistent fungi.The author generates two seemingly unrelated concrete images in order to support the experience of the narrator as dissociated, of living in two worlds at once. There are two worlds existing simultaneously, one where the baby lives and one where the baby dies. The line,Just missedis aptly chosen. Undoubtedly, it will become a refrain for the narrator and her lack ofpotential babies. Everything about this poem rang of polished craft and sophistication.-Micheline Maylor, words of praise forSeeds(winner of Arc's 2017 Diana Brebner Prize) - which appears in this book.Some of her poems are based on form, some surreal, some are bracing lyrics ? all feature vivid images propelled by artful repetition. Associations among the images detour strict logic, but pull the reader or listener along to wherever she wants to take us.- Jean Van Loon, author of Building on River, "Conyer Clayton's rich, unpredictable lines are imbued with the transformational traces and scars that humans, nature, and contraptions leave on one another. Vivid sounds and images stagger Plinko-like through these deeply personal poems that display both murmuration and volatility. This is a book that resonates." --Stuart Ross, author of Motel of the Opposable Thumbs and A Sparrow Came Down Resplendent
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2019-946878
Series
First Poets Ser.
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