Description
| Product ID: | 9780593319505 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Cry Back My Sea |
| Subtitle: | 48 Poems in 6 Waves |
| Authors: | Author: Sarah Arvio |
| Page Count: | 128 |
| Subjects: | Poetry, Poetry |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Stunning poems of obsession, loss, and the desire for a renewed self, from the award-winning poet “I thought I had left behind the darkness / of the heart,” Arvio confesses in the poem “Small War.” The love Arvio traces in these pages is indeed a battle, one in which the best-laid plans are shattered. Rarely has a poet tackled intimate love with so much invention and bravery. In poem after poem, we meet the troubling lover whose nearness and force undoes her. There are moments of reprieve: “my naked body and budding pleasure / in the weather of your presence. / Not whether your presence but how.” The voice is vulnerable, self-knowing, often funny; the poet seems to be writing these poems to save herself from a devastating passion. Her weapons are a cascade of brash, freely spoken lines and a powerful command of metaphor, wielded in a search for meaning and understanding. These breathtaking love poems make the collection Arvio’s most universal to date. |
| Imprint Name: | Random House Inc |
| Publisher Name: | Random House USA Inc |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-08-10 |
