| Shields & Shards & Stitches & Songs Contributor(s): Beachy-Quick, Dan (Author) |
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ISBN: 163243007X ISBN-13: 9781632430076 Publisher: Omnidawn OUR PRICE: $10.76 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| Physical Information: 0.1" H x 5.3" W x 6.9" (0.10 lbs) 48 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Shields call out to the violence from which they also protect us, a paradox that belongs as well to the images etched upon them. In these poems seven shields each suffer a process, one of wounding, and of healing the wound back to song. Shards are what remain of shields, fragment words relict from the first poem. Shards become stitches, barest suture of meaning made only from what language in the shard remains. Last, built upon the stitches, keeping intact what letters and words there remain, seven songs to replace seven shields, born out of a violence they seek only to sing themselves past. |
Contributor Bio(s): Beachy-Quick, Dan: - Dan Beachy-Quick is a poet and essayist and the assistant chair of the English Department of Colorado State University. He has published six books of poetry and is a Guggenheim Fellow. |