"I was awake. / The hour was wrong," de Meijer writes, and her poems track, in visceral and tender detail, the distraction, exhaustion, exhilaration, and fear of child-rearing through crisis. For de Meijer, the experience was also a crisis of language, and the struggle to find new terms for her state. Addressed, in part, to a child she calls "my grievous spectacle, / my dearest unpossessable," The Outer Wards is everywhere marked by a joy in words--their quick-fire turns, sumptuous sounds, and nursery-rhyme seductions.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Signal Editions
Published: 09/01/2020
ISBN: 9781550655452
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.13lbs
Size: 7.40h x 5.00w x 0.30d