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Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod by Traci Brimhall (2020, Trade Paperback)
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In this ambitious third collection, Traci Brimhall corresponds with the urges of life and death within herself as she lives through a series of impossibilities: the sentencing of her friend's murderers, the birth of her child, the death of her mother, divorce, a trip sailing through the Arctic.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCopper Canyon Press
ISBN-101556595808
ISBN-139781556595806
eBay Product ID (ePID)28038378231
Product Key Features
Book TitleCome the Slumberless to the Land of Nod
Number of Pages78 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2020
TopicSubjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss, Subjects & Themes / Nature, American / General
GenrePoetry
AuthorTraci Brimhall
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.3 in
Item Weight5.3 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width9 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2019-043454
Reviews"With each successive book, there's even more grandness to Brimhall's narrative voice. She writes with a commanding sense, with some poems feeling like the voice beaming to Job, and other poems arriving like a hypnotizing whisper at night... Another masterful book from one of our finest poets." --The Millions "Traci Brimhall's Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod unfurls like a series of dispatches from the shores of grief, and then the burning wildfire of divorce. ...[H]er poems feel as intimate as a handwritten letter." --John Freeman, Literary Hub
SynopsisPart murder ballad, part lullaby, this hybrid collection considers what it means to bring new life into a suffering world., Written during the trial for a close friend's murder, Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod exposes that the whimsical, horrible, and absurd all sit together. In this ambitious fourth collection, Traci Brimhall corresponds with the urges of life and death within herself as she lives through a series of impossibilities: the sentencing of her friend's murderers, the birth of her child, the death of her mother, divorce, a trip sailing through the Arctic. In lullaby, lyric essay, and always with brutal sincerity, Brimhall examines how beauty and terror live right alongside each other--much like how Nod is both a fictional dreamscape and the place where Cain is exiled for murdering Abel. By plucking at the tensions between life and death, love and hate, truth and obscurity, Brimhall finds what it is that ties opposing themes together; how love and loss are married in grief. Like Eve thrust from Eden, Brimhall is tasked with finding meaning in a world defined by its cruelty. Unrelenting, incisive, and tender, these poems expose beauty in the grotesque and argue that the effort to be good always outweighs the desire to succumb to what is easy.
LC Classification NumberPS3602.R53177C66
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- Nov 16, 2023
Brilliant
Traci Brimhall is now the poet laureate of Kansas, and this earlier collection is brilliant & incisive writing, to the bone.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
