13th Balloon
by
Mark Bibbins
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1556595778
ISBN-13
9781556595776
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press,U.S.
Imprint
Copper Canyon Press,U.S.
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 26th, 2020
Print length
80 Pages
Weight
182 grams
Dimensions
15.20 x 22.70 x 1.20 cms
Product Classification:
Poetry
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Bibbins turns his eye to the American AIDS crisis with quiet consideration and dark wit, questioning personal loss amongst intolerance.
O, The Oprah Magazine, “42 Best LGBTQ Books of 2020”
NPR’s Favorite Books of 2020
In his fourth collection, 13th Balloon, Mark Bibbins turns his candid eye to the American AIDS crisis. With quiet consideration and dark wit, Bibbins addresses the majority of his poems to Mark Crast, his friend and lover who died from AIDS at the early age of 25. Every broken line and startling linguistic turn grapples with the genre of elegy: what does it mean to experience personal loss, Bibbins seems to ask, amidst a greater societal tragedy? The answer is blurred— amongst unforeseen disease, intolerance, and the intimate consequences of mismanaged power. Perhaps the most unanswerable question arrives when Bibbins writes, “For me elegy/ is like a Ouija planchette/ something I can barely touch/ as I try to make it/ say what I want it to say.” And while we are still searching for the words that might begin an answer, Bibbins helps us understand that there is endless value in continuing—through both joy and grief—to wonder.
NPR’s Favorite Books of 2020
In his fourth collection, 13th Balloon, Mark Bibbins turns his candid eye to the American AIDS crisis. With quiet consideration and dark wit, Bibbins addresses the majority of his poems to Mark Crast, his friend and lover who died from AIDS at the early age of 25. Every broken line and startling linguistic turn grapples with the genre of elegy: what does it mean to experience personal loss, Bibbins seems to ask, amidst a greater societal tragedy? The answer is blurred— amongst unforeseen disease, intolerance, and the intimate consequences of mismanaged power. Perhaps the most unanswerable question arrives when Bibbins writes, “For me elegy/ is like a Ouija planchette/ something I can barely touch/ as I try to make it/ say what I want it to say.” And while we are still searching for the words that might begin an answer, Bibbins helps us understand that there is endless value in continuing—through both joy and grief—to wonder.
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