If All the World and Love Were Young

In Stephen Sexton's remarkable debut, the video games of his childhood are once again a way to slip through the looking glass; to be in two places at once; to be two people at once. In these poems about the death of his mother, Sexton charts the familiar levels of Super Mario World, whose flowered landscapes bleed into our world-- and ours, strange with loss, bleed into it. This moving, otherworldly narrative is a daring exploration of memory, grief, and the necessity of the unreal.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Wake Forest University Press
Published: 02/01/2024
ISBN: 9781943667086
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.98h x 5.98w x 0.47d