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PIECEMEAL IBD

NINE PENS
04 / 2024
9781917150019
Inglês

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In Piecemeal, Ahana Banerji inhabits the soft and the small: wrists, fists, and window frost, mustard seedand salmon scale. Her poetry lives inside the minute pressures of everyday life, inside the shudders andbruises of the human body. In paying careful attention to parts of the whole, BanerjiâÇÖs smallest gesturesbecome suddenly enormous. These are poems about fear and family, about love and language and hunger.Banerji moves through a variety of forms-villanelle, prose poem, âÇÖbedtime storyâÇÖ-with a quiet rhythmicconfidence. And from within the glistening structures of the poems, we glimpse strange characters andconversations. There are mothers and daughters, gods and lobsters, Federico Garc¡a Lorca and JoanDidion.áAt the heart of Piecemeal, though, is the speakerâÇÖs promise to herself: âÇÖI, too, will be / good. Good / as thejugularâÇÖs perfect hyacinthâÇÖ. It is an intensely vivid and hopeful promise from a powerful new voice inpoetry.