Description
| Product ID: | 9781950268139 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Hoarders |
| Authors: | Author: Kate Durbin |
| Page Count: | 184 |
| Subjects: | Poetry, Poetry |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Tender, witty, and heartbreaking, Hoarders is an exploration into personal and cultural attachments, inspired by the reality television show of its namesake. A Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2021 An NPR Best Book of 2021 An Electric Literature Best Poetry Book of 2021 A Dennis Cooper Best Book of 2021 In Hoarders, Kate Durbin deftly traces the associations between hoarding and collective US traumas rooted in consumerism and the environment. Each poem is a prismatic portrait of a person and the beloved objects they hoard, from Barbies to snow globes to vintage Las Vegas memorabilia to rotting fruit to plants. Using reality television as a medium, Durbin conjures an uncanny space of attachments that reflects our cultural moment back to the reader in ways that are surreal and tender. In the absurdist tradition of Kafka and Beckett, Hoarders ultimately embraces with sympathy the difficulty and complexity of the human condition. |
| Imprint Name: | Wave Books |
| Publisher Name: | Wave Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-06-17 |
