White Allison Benis White

Wendys (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"e;Because it is easier to miss a stranger / with your mother's name,"e; Allison Benis White instead writes about five women named Wendy as a way into the complex grief that still lingers after the death of a sixth Wendy, the author's long-absent mother. A series of epistolary poems addressed to Wendy O. Williams becomes an occasion for the speaker to eulogize as well as reflect on the singer's life and eventual suicide: "e;What kind of love is death, I'm asking?"e; In the section devoted to Wendy Torrance, the fictional wife from The Shining who was bludgeoned by her husband, the speaker muses on the inadequacy of language to resolve or even contain grief in the wake of trauma: "e;A book is a coffin. Hoarsely. A white sheet draped over the cage of being."e; Ultimately, The Wendys is a book of silences and space in which tenderness and violence exist in exquisite tension. "e;If to speak is to die,"e; White writes in "e;Ignis Fatuus,"e; "e;I will whisper."e;

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Four Way Books
• Seitenzahl: 80
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781945588594
• Artikelnr.: 59626279

Autorenporträt

Allison Benis White is also the author of Please Bury Me in This, winner of the Rilke Prize, and Small Porcelain Head, selected by Claudia Rankine for the Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry and named a finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award and the California Book Award. Her first book, Self-Portrait with Crayon, received the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Book Prize. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, Pushcart Prize XLI: Best of the Small Presses, and elsewhere. She is an associate professor at the University of California, Riverside.