Buch, Englisch, 104 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 217 mm, Gewicht: 119 g
Reihe: Wick First Book
Buch, Englisch, 104 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 217 mm, Gewicht: 119 g
Reihe: Wick First Book
ISBN: 978-1-60635-427-8
Verlag: Kent State University Press
How Blood Works is a collection of poems that considers the way memory, identity, and our very blood take shape in the places we inhabit: rooms, cities, landscapes, and the spaces within the body. Moore examines the idea of bloodlines—literal familial ties and the traumas, secrets, and complex relationships passed from one generation to the next. To explore these motifs, many of the poems borrow from the world of visual art, including painting, sculpture and its resonance with the creation of the self, and architecture, too, as a metaphorical counterweight to nature.In keeping with the central theme that the stories we tell ourselves—and, by extension, our understanding of who we are—are shaped by the spaces in which we tell them, the poems in How Blood Works vary in form. From traditionally lineated lyrics to more architectural, segmented prose pieces, the poems themselves become a space for narratives of the self to play out.
