At First & Then
Paperback 32 pages English February 23, 2021
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Winner of the Fall 2019 Black River Chapbook Competitionat first & then is radical, beautiful, propulsive. An Orphic tale of a body descending then rising again, the debut chapbook from poet Danielle Rose charts woven stories of addiction, grief, trauma, and, ultimately, gender-- the essential pieces of personhood. Through struggle and loss, the poems in at first & then proceed like timid ghosts learning how to form language, gathering the disparate elements of selfhood into a warm coherency, a radical self-permission. Rose writes the language of longing with a fierce acuity, but this is also a collection about fulfillment. " In both there is dancing," Rose's speaker says of the motion of the tides and of welcoming the divine. These are poems brimming with motion, with hunger, and with aching, full-bodied joy. " This must be how / we can bear to be so empty / so we can be so full."
- Author:
- Danielle Rose
- Publisher:
- Black Lawrence Press
- Publication Date:
- February 23, 2021
- Number of pages:
- 32 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1625570155
- ISBN-13:
- 9781625570154