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Carolyn Hembree

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Description:When I read Carolyn Hembree, I am reminded of a ball of heat lightning that shot through our house one summer when I was young. That charge stayed in the air and made us feel like we had snapped suddenly awake. SKINNY wakes us with that blue coil, “fast under a low ceiling,” shooting from sideboard to curtain rod to screendoor in one brilliant flash, electrifying everything. It sounds like bottle-rockets are going off, and I feel the thrill and terror of living inside each explosive line.—D. A. PowellCarolyn Hembree rips into language almost physically to make new phrasing out of her Southern lexicon. SKINNY, an autobiographical tour de force, arrives full of swagger: “You wouldn’t, Love-/bug, goes the Mother through capped teeth,/on us dare turn.” In this debut volume of poems, Hembree gets as close to the original words for things as I can remember anyone doing in a long time.—Jane MillerIn her first full-length collection, Hembree extends her unmistakable voice and lightning-quick vision (tinged with a lucid, wry affection) into areas of American life too often left unlit. The voice is Whitmanesque, flowing through barriers of time and space as well as class and gender, willing to illuminate and love the darker and more dubious identities we’re capable of inhabiting, making a compelling and ultimately redemptive music of our secret hopes and raw grief. The poems in Skinny are smart, lively, original, and both wicked and tender: it’s a book to live in, to read and reread for its deep-rooted sense of time and place as well as the steadily inventive writing. Over and over we see the speaker’s effort at toughness crash into vulnerability—while an unforgettable music stamps these lines on the heart: “Remembering is / like putting a feather underneath / the skull…”—Laura MullenIn this poetry collection, the title character leaves her beloved, dying matriarch in the South and heads for New York City. Incorporating ekphrastic pieces, prose poems, dramatic monologues, odes, elegies, and a pastoral, this compilation offers polyphonic responses to harrowing encounters. Filled with nostalgia, it also combines regionalisms of the Deep South with the idiolect of a particular family to form a grammar as fractured as the landscape it describes.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Skinny. To get started finding Skinny, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: When I read Carolyn Hembree, I am reminded of a ball of heat lightning that shot through our house one summer when I was young. That charge stayed in the air and made us feel like we had snapped suddenly awake. SKINNY wakes us with that blue coil, “fast under a low ceiling,” shooting from sideboard to curtain rod to screendoor in one brilliant flash, electrifying everything. It sounds like bottle-rockets are going off, and I feel the thrill and terror of living inside each explosive line.—D. A. PowellCarolyn Hembree rips into language almost physically to make new phrasing out of her Southern lexicon. SKINNY, an autobiographical tour de force, arrives full of swagger: “You wouldn’t, Love-/bug, goes the Mother through capped teeth,/on us dare turn.” In this debut volume of poems, Hembree gets as close to the original words for things as I can remember anyone doing in a long time.—Jane MillerIn her first full-length collection, Hembree extends her unmistakable voice and lightning-quick vision (tinged with a lucid, wry affection) into areas of American life too often left unlit. The voice is Whitmanesque, flowing through barriers of time and space as well as class and gender, willing to illuminate and love the darker and more dubious identities we’re capable of inhabiting, making a compelling and ultimately redemptive music of our secret hopes and raw grief. The poems in Skinny are smart, lively, original, and both wicked and tender: it’s a book to live in, to read and reread for its deep-rooted sense of time and place as well as the steadily inventive writing. Over and over we see the speaker’s effort at toughness crash into vulnerability—while an unforgettable music stamps these lines on the heart: “Remembering is / like putting a feather underneath / the skull…”—Laura MullenIn this poetry collection, the title character leaves her beloved, dying matriarch in the South and heads for New York City. Incorporating ekphrastic pieces, prose poems, dramatic monologues, odes, elegies, and a pastoral, this compilation offers polyphonic responses to harrowing encounters. Filled with nostalgia, it also combines regionalisms of the Deep South with the idiolect of a particular family to form a grammar as fractured as the landscape it describes.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Skinny. To get started finding Skinny, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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