Answer the Door (9781942371892)
Paperback 104 pages English Feb 03, 2020
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"Choose one or the other, demands the light. / Choose both, says the dark." ANSWER THE DOOR votes with the dark and its predilection for paradox and possibility. These poems invite readers into a world populated by imaginary friends, 1950s television icons, inmates at a county prison, lead pirates, plastic knights, a Sunday school class and Jesus's secret lover, Quintilian and Oneal Moore, Salome and Deborah Kerr, Pixie the Dog and a cat named Schrödinger. The book is grounded in the resonant particulars of our daily lives and in the longings that inform them; it puts its faith in the mysteries inherent in these lives and in these longings. It trusts in language's insatiable hungers. It argues for a justice inseparable from compassion and a beauty inextricable from loss. It is grateful for the hard work of propositions to keep us rooted in time and place.
- Author:
- Christopher Bursk
- Publisher:
- FutureCycle Press
- Publication Date:
- Feb 03, 2020
- Number of pages:
- 104 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1942371896
- ISBN-13:
- 9781942371892