Because I Am the Shore I Want to Be the Sea

by Renee Ashley

Poetry. Winner of the Subito Book Prize, selected by Ruth Ellen Kocher. In BECAUSE I AM THE SHORE I WANT TO BE THE SEA, Ashley's fifth full-length collection, her narrator, through highly compressed, lyrical prose poems, engages in what she calls the "imperfect discourse of an unfinished world." These poems use syntactic ambiguity and metaphor to compress the philosophical observation of a life into image and back out again; underlying narratives...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0983115087
• ISBN13: 9780983115083
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Subito Press
• Length: 76 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.4"