Begin With A Failed Body: Poems (The Cave Canem Poetry Prize Ser.)

This collection of poems begins rooted in the landscape of the U.S. South as it voices singular lives carved out of immediate and historical trauma. While these poems dwell in the body, often meditating on its frailty and desire, they also question the weight that literary, historical, and religious icons are expected to bear. Within the vast scope of this volume, the poems arc from a pig farmerÆs funeral to Georges de la TourÆs paintings and Toni MorrisonÆs Beloved. With an ear tuned to the lift and lilt of speech, they wring song from sorrow and plant in every dirge a seed of jubilation. Rich in clarity and decisive in her attention to image, Natalie J. Graham writes resonant, lush poetry.

• | Author: Natalie Graham
• | Publisher: University Of Georgia Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 15, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 88 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Poetry
• | ISBN-10: 0820351202
• | ISBN-13: 9780820351209