Miraculous Courageous

Josh Booton

Description

The Miraculous Courageous is a fractured epic, a sequence which seeks not to explain but to evoke the mind of one boy and his experience with autism. In the tradition of Carson's Autobiography of Red, Booton constructs a landscape both familiar and uncanny, a territory where our inner workings burn with the luminosity of jellyfish and "darkness turns the lighthouse on." These poems are agile, slippery, glancing at the camera then quickly away, skewing the boundaries between lyric and monologue, vignette and scene. These poems are a bridge. And through their deft conflation of inner and outer worlds, the self and the other, The Miraculous Courageous marks a rich and startling immersion in the mind of autism.

Informations

• Publié par: Parlor Press, LLC
• Date de parution: 07 février 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 4
• EAN13: 9781602354487
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

THE MIRACULOUS COURAGEOUS

JOSHBOOTON WINNER OF THE NEW MEASURE POETRY PRIZE

Free Verse Edîtîons Edîted by Jon Tompson

The Miraculous Courageous

Josh Booton

Winner of the New Measure Poetry Prize

Parlor Press Anderson, South Carolina www.parlorpress.com

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Contents

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