Excisions

by Hilary Plum

Excisions investigates the feeling-- the problem and the syntax-- of being on a threshold. If you don't know what will happen next, you can't yet say what has happened. These poems arise from states of precise unknowing, desperate imagination, inchoate emotion, encounters with mortality and power when they're closing in but haven't caught you yet. What is choice, given the terms of an ill body, survival in a grotesque empire? Tenderly and acutely,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625570457
• ISBN13: 9781625570451
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Black Lawrence Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"