A01=Jessica Piazza
Author_Jessica Piazza
Category=DCF
darkness
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phobias
play
poems
self-conscious
Product details
- ISBN 9781597097222
- Weight: 122g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 12 Sep 2013
- Publisher: Red Hen Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Existing at the intersection of darkness and play, the noisy, irreverent, and self-conscious poems in Interrobang take clinical “phobias” and clinical “philias” as their conceit. Each poem makes its own music, the crescendos and decrescendos born of obsessions over anxiety and lust. Encompassing a range of forms (but mostly sonnets), each piece toes the line between traditional meter and contemporary sonic play, while a tell-tale heart beats beneath the floor of the collection, constantly reminding us of our shames, fears, and the clock’s unrelenting ticking. Through individual stories about love, degradation of the self, the redemptive power of genuine humility, and the refuge offered by art and language, Interrobang, winner of the 2012 A Room of Her Own Foundation To the Lighthouse Poetry Publication Prize, illustrates how even the worst-case scenario of these pathologies are, fundamentally, just extensions of the dark truths to which every one of us can relate.
