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商品簡介
This debut collection, full of natural images and fable-like storytelling, investigates the precariousness inherent to familial love, grief, and myth-making.
At the center of this stellar collection are three imaginative sisters who have grown up in a world colored by loss and anticipatory grief, painting their lives with great swathes of anxiety and sadness.
We hear stories of a great-uncle bitten by a shark, a lion who slaughters a deer, a tornado, fleeing horses, and a boy who hangs himself from a tree. To counter these terrors and to fill the void, the sisters create an intimate secret fantasy world, the most touching of which is the big sister’s tale of the selkie: “On land her pelt was heavy/like stewed velvet, so she taught herself/ to take it off.” Later, the sisters discover what looks like a sealskin on the beach. They begin to cry. In the first part of the book, the ocean and sand form a lush backdrop to these poems. Later we find ourselves in a spacecraft where the librarian “has the soft accent of someone only a generation or two removed from Earth.” Here, the interactions revolve around the father, though his presence too is dream-like. The voice in these poems is the perfect mix of grief and imagination, quiet and explosion. The book is delicately extraordinary.
At the center of this stellar collection are three imaginative sisters who have grown up in a world colored by loss and anticipatory grief, painting their lives with great swathes of anxiety and sadness.
We hear stories of a great-uncle bitten by a shark, a lion who slaughters a deer, a tornado, fleeing horses, and a boy who hangs himself from a tree. To counter these terrors and to fill the void, the sisters create an intimate secret fantasy world, the most touching of which is the big sister’s tale of the selkie: “On land her pelt was heavy/like stewed velvet, so she taught herself/ to take it off.” Later, the sisters discover what looks like a sealskin on the beach. They begin to cry. In the first part of the book, the ocean and sand form a lush backdrop to these poems. Later we find ourselves in a spacecraft where the librarian “has the soft accent of someone only a generation or two removed from Earth.” Here, the interactions revolve around the father, though his presence too is dream-like. The voice in these poems is the perfect mix of grief and imagination, quiet and explosion. The book is delicately extraordinary.
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