The Wild Delight of Wild Things by Turner, Brian

The Wild Delight of Wild Things (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781949944532)

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The Wild Delight of Wild Things by Turner, Brian

The Wild Delight of Wild Things

$17.95
The Wild Delight of Wild Things by Turner, Brian

The Wild Delight of Wild Things

$17.95
Format: Paperback
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Although grief is at the forefront of these poems, The Wild Delight of Wild Things is a simple love letter to Turner's late wife, poet Ilyse Kusnetz (1966-2016).

The poems are also a love letter to our planet during the ongoing sixth mass extinction. Intertwining this immense grief, Turner explores the hybrid borderlands of genre, and the meditations on love and loss blur the boundaries between poetry and lyric prose. In Italian, the word "stanza" is rooted in the word "room."

And so, stanza by stanza, room by room, page by page, we draft ourselves forward into the imagination, our arms filled with all that we can carry from the days gone by. This is the art of survival. Profound grief teaches us how to dwell in the house of memory--that vibrant temporal landscape of the past--where we might live with the dead we love once more.

Author: Brian Turner
ISBN-10: 1949944530
ISBN-13: 9781949944532
Publisher: Alice James Books
Language: English
Published: 08/08/2023
Pages: 100
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Shelf Awareness 08/11/2023
Publishers Weekly 09/18/2023
By Brian Turner
By Brian Turner
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Brian Turner is the author of Here, Bullet and Phantom Noise. His memoir My Life as a Foreign Country was published in 2014. He's the editor of The Kiss, and co-edited The Strangest of Theatres. His work has been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, Harper's, and other fine journals. Turner was featured in the documentary film Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience, nominated for an Academy Award. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, and he's received a USA Hillcrest Fellowship in Literature, an NEA Literature Fellowship in Poetry, the Amy Lowell Traveling Fellowship, a US-Japan Friendship Commission Fellowship, the Poets' Prize, and a Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. He directs the MFA program in Lake Tahoe and lives in Orlando, Florida.

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