Hart Island

In hart island, the poet narrator walks and works in the East Village of Manhattan navigating the day to day needs and desires of a community, an organization, a changing neighborhood, as well as her own. The poem, which begins after she discovers the existence of an appropriated, politically walled-off potter's field/prison, proposes that others are not figurative or metaphorical, but are literal, material--that alterity can be both a limit and radiance. Praise for Stacy Szymaszek: "Each poem is what I am looking for: a resonance with a particular location, an intelligence unafraid of its humanity, a sort of desperate adequacy with the people or objects that Szymaszek encounters."--Etel Adnan

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Nightboat Books
Published: 05/15/2015
ISBN: 9781937658342
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.40d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 09/07/2015