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Risk
Rusty Morrison
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- ISBN 9781939568762
- Dimensions: 139 x 190mm
- Publication Date: 27 Jun 2024
- Publisher: Black Ocean
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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From the co-publisher of acclaimed poetry press Omnidawn, Risk engages directly with limitations, both those that structure the literal form of the poems and literary form and those that are both unavoidable and self-inflicted.
In Risk, award-winning poet Rusty Morrison uses a constraining form of seven-syllable segments with breaks between to explore questions of limitation. In these poems, she is not just writing about constraints, but living inside and seeing how to manage them. In this way, the speaker of these poems actively experiences limitations as event, not aftermath.
Drawing on the idea of philosopher and critic Hélène Cixous who writes that "the border makes up the homeland, it prohibits and gives passage in the same stroke," in Risk Morrison aims where the border and framings she uses offer understanding and where boundaries should be pushed against and passed beyond, as frightening as that might be.
Rusty Morrison is the author of five books: After Urgency, the true keeps calm biding its story, Beyond the Chainlink, and Book Of the Given. She teaches, gives writing consultations, and co-publishes Omnidawn. She lives in Richmond, CA.
