Swoop: Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781555976576)

Winner of the Emily Dickinson First Book Award from the Poetry Foundation

O ludicrous swoon, O blind hind-sight,
O torching of bridges and blood boiled white,
O sparrow, and arrow, and hell below,
O, she says, because she loves to say O.
--from "O, She Says"

Swoop is a sonically audacious first book, a ringing up and down the musical scales. Hailey Leithauser's resplendent array of forms--from traditional verse to more fragmented, onrushing experiments--takes the reader to the heights of lyricism. In these poems, sharp objects speak for themselves, sex is taken up alfresco (among other things), an enigmatic question is posed from To Have and Have Not, and the song of a mockingbird drives us out of bed. A paean to excess, Swoop is a virtuosic and exhilarating debut.

Author: Hailey Leithauser
ISBN-10: 1555976573
ISBN-13: 9781555976576
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2013
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.29lbs
Size: 9.01h x 6.07w x 0.26d
Award: Triangle Awards - Finalist

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/24/2013
Shelf Awareness 10/18/2013