Thoughtful delivery service

Easy 30 day returns

Certified Reviews

Description

Apostasies by Holli CarrellHolli Carrells debut collection Apostasies explores Mormon girlhood, the American West, matriarchal lineage, indoctrination, estrangement, and the lingering ramifications of being raised within a repressive and patriarchal American religious ideology. Interweaving prose, documentary poems, translations, erasures, and spare, imagistic lyrics, Apostasies aims to recover and reclaim the body by its own definition. Casting her experience within the

These poems show the contradictions of identity and the elusiveness of origins

in his own time and in ours

With a poet’s ear and a poet’s grace of expression

And he makes peace with Detroit: “Slow learner that I am

Abi was named a 2021 Jack Straw Writer and a 2019 Hugo Fellow

slipping back and forth between lyric and narrative

and a jaunty walk through New York’s High Line park

and we learn that whatever the state of the body

the Chicago Renaissance that flourished around Gwendolyn Brooks

author of Sour Heart

Provocative and potent

and a 'honey-mint whisper / of eucalyptus