Quite Apart: Poems

by Krystal Languell

Quite Apart asks "what about after survival?" in a chronicle of attempts to have a heart in a rough world. Haunted by work and its wasted hours, the book offers a glimpse of self-rendered as subtext beneath the sheen of productivity. Inventive formal poems provide a kind of alibi, mirroring the inflexibility of the environment--driving through mountains, bleeding in alleys, losing keys in a bar parking lot--to allow some emotion to pass through,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1629221422
• ISBN13: 9781629221427
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: University of Akron Press
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.8"