
Paper Crown
by Heather Christle
Title:
Paper Crown
Author:
Heather Christle
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
80 pages
Publisher:
Hachette UK Distribution
ISBN-13:
9781472158680
EAN:
9781472158680
Classifications:
Poetry
Weight (g):
218
Dimensions (mm):
215 x 135 x 8
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
'[Heather Christle is] among the small handful of authors whose books I reflexively, half-consciously reach toward whenever I need inspiration, consolation, delight. Nobody thinks like her' Kaveh Akbar, Electric Literature'This is a stunning book' Jericho Brown'A striking celebration of risk and beauty' Kit Fan, GuardianPaper Crown is Heather Christle's first new collection of poems in over a decade. Throughout these exuberant poems, Christle conjures moments when the world's events - a child's words, early twentieth-century predictions of drone warfare, dinners with friends - alight themselves with the odd logic of dreams and serendipity.With tenderness and verse, honesty and curiosity, Paper Crown invites readers to look up from its pages and recognise that the day going on around them could very well be its own poem. MistakeFor years I have seendead animals on the highwayand grieved for them only to realize they arenot dead animalsthey are t shirtsor bits of blown tireand I have foundmyself with thisexcess of griefI have made with no object to letit spill over andI have not knownwhere to put it orkeep it and then todayI thought I knowI can give it to you











