Everything Here by Billie Swift (English) Paperback Book

Description: Everything Here by Billie Swift Billie Swifts Everything Here meditates on the mythologies of the banal with a calibrated ambivalence. The "here" of Swifts poems rebuffs and bolsters the eyes ability to document, the bodys ability to believe the swelter of its sensate world: "Compare this to flight. / The flight will be my hand / pushing through the dark, / the feel of nothing / against my palm." The speakers "hold [their] mutual / eternities, [their] shared bits of air," unafraid to point toward your favorite star and proclaim it less than alive. Swifts poems share a fabulous muzzle, parsing one hundred tabletops, one hundred jays, one hundred trees, in sharp, precise language. Everything Here is a lissome spell for an othered quotidian, each poem a way to "stay / still, wanting to be that important." FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Review "Everything Here reminds us that a stanza is a room, and from room to room we walk through this house of the book with all of its windows and swarming shadows. A restless witness lives here, recording the world around us as she names then renames its objects, transforming what was once familiar into something peculiar: The bird will be / a blue colored pencil. Billie Swift encourages the reader to pick up the bird and draw in the white space of the poems, in the starkly unsaid, which hovers like a strange atmosphere though it is never estranging, hum of cool and clock. The click / of dog. These poems carry whatever longings were there in that far off field bringing them here closer to you." - Carolina Ebeid Long Description Billie Swifts Everything Here meditates on the mythologies of the banal with a calibrated ambivalence. The "here" of Swifts poems rebuffs and bolsters the eyes ability to document, the bodys ability to believe the swelter of its sensate world: "Compare this to flight. / The flight will be my hand / pushing through the dark, / the feel of nothing / against my palm." The speakers "hold [their] mutual / eternities, [their] shared bits of air," unafraid to point toward your favorite star and proclaim it less than alive. Swifts poems share a fabulous muzzle, parsing one hundred tabletops, one hundred jays, one hundred trees, in sharp, precise language. Everything Here is a lissome spell for an othered quotidian, each poem a way to "stay / still, wanting to be that important." Review Quote "Everything Here reminds us that a stanza is a room, and from room to room we walk through this house of the book with all of its windows and swarming shadows. A restless witness lives here, recording the world around us as she names then renames its objects, transforming what was once familiar into something peculiar: The bird will be / a blue colored pencil. Billie Swift encourages the reader to pick up the bird and draw in the white space of the poems, in the starkly unsaid, which hovers like a strange atmosphere though it is never estranging, hum of cool and clock. The click / of dog. These poems carry whatever longings were there in that far off field bringing them here closer to you." - Carolina Ebeid Details ISBN1943977623 Author Billie Swift Pages 34 Publisher Sibling Rivalry Press, LLC Year 2019 ISBN-10 1943977623 ISBN-13 9781943977628 Format Paperback Publication Date 2019-09-19 Imprint Sibling Rivalry Press, LLC Language English UK Release Date 2019-09-19 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:133706494;

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