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thread me an exit: poems

by Wendy Vardaman

Brain Mill Press

Paperback or Softback 00050 pages May 27, 2025

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back / of the body jaw to ankle still twisted floss. / have you had some extra stress this year? / do a quick inventory. as of this morning / all three kids aliveThese poems ache - with the desperate love of a mother, yearning, grief, and the surprise of growing older in the liminal space between elder parents and long-limbed children. Vardaman's use of language is assured and muscular. In one poem, she may warm the reader up with long lines that metamorphize from playful litany to slicing emotional truth, and in another a single diminutive stanza delivers the energy of a bomb. It's rare for a poet to expose the quotidian of life so utterly that the reader is left breathless, but Vardaman creates deep feeling from ordinary life, transforming it into astonishment.thread me an exit was a 2024 selection of the Brain Mill Press + Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Chapbook Contest.
Author:
Wendy Vardaman
Publisher:
Brain Mill Press
Publication Date:
May 27, 2025
Number of pages:
00050 pages
Binding:
Paperback or Softback
ISBN-10:
1948559927
ISBN-13:
9781948559928