Wild Tongue"With a bitter and withering irony and an eye for shocking beauty . . . Seiferle cuts straight to the emotionally honest kernel within family, spirit and myth."--Publishers Weekly Poet Rebecca Seiferle once said that "one should always read a poem as if it was a matter of life and death." Seiferle's fourth book of poems, Wild Tongue, suggests a similar belief about writing poems. The tongue is both voice and body, and Wild Tongue rages against these global bits, bridles, and palliatives that attempt to calm and control. Combining shocking beauty and compelling directness, Seiferle counterbalances divorce and domestic violence with newfound love and cathartic wit. Her poems, like cave drawings, are inspired by urgency and concern, working into the cracks and contours of truth and wound. "The human voice on the edge of extinction," she writes, "and on that edge, everything wild, unspoken, vital and living, begins to speak out." From "The Too Long Married Woman": So, it came to this, she could barely bear Rebecca Seiferle is the editor of the online journal Drunken Boat and has published six volumes of poetry and translation. She lives in Tucson, Arizona. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 14
... palm a folded wing , our fingertips just touching a tree full of birds A music as we begin to move ...... . So close and reserved It will not show itself Except by a dark light 5 where am I I've gone miles miles past the turn back when ...
... palm full of salty water , so that the hand cups and tries to hold , clear and cool , the river of its own being that gathers in every vein and cell , swelling now and overflowing beneath the transparency of the skin , where some touch ...
... palm , festered nettle beneath the skin themselves , too bright , inutterable , unnamed , in this field of snow the transport , transplantation , accidental transmigration , you who have no name for what you walk among as the sun ...
Contents
The wild is not destitute of flavor | 3 |
Black Water | 6 |
The Social Kiss | 7 |
Copyright | |
69 other sections not shown