Clangings
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1936747464
ISBN-13
9781936747467
Publisher
Sarabande Books, Incorporated
Imprint
Sarabande Books, Incorporated
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 6th, 2012
Print length
80 Pages
Weight
155 grams
Dimensions
22.80 x 15.20 x 0.80 cms
Product Classification:
Poetry by individual poets
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Book-length series of poems that mimics schizophrenia's associative riffing and constructs an intimate and stirring portrait of vibrant, unsteady mind.
Schizophrenia may be characterized by a surfeit of language, a refurbishment of our used up words with musical connections every day speech and sense cannot provide. These riffs are “clangings,” and Cramer imagines them into a poetic narrative that exults in both aural richness and words’ power to evoke an interior landscape whose strangeness is intimate, unsteady, and stirring.
I hear the dinner plates gossip
Mom collected to a hundred.
My friends say get on board,
but I''m not bored. Dad''s a nap
lying by the fire. That''s why
when radios broadcast news,
news broadcast from radios
gives air to my kinship, Dickey,
who says he''d go dead if ever
I discovered him to them.
I took care, then, the last time
bedrooms banged, to tape over
the outlets, swipe the prints
off DVDs, weep up the tea
stains where once was coffee.
Not one seep from him since.
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