
Red Gloves
by Rebecca Watts
Title:
Red Gloves
Author:
Rebecca Watts
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
72 pages
Publisher:
Chicago Review Press Inc DBA Indepe
ISBN-13:
9781784109554
EAN:
9781784109554
Classifications:
Poetry
Weight (g):
224
Dimensions (mm):
135 x 215 x 8
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
In this follow-up to her acclaimed debut The Met Office Advises Caution, Rebecca Watts observes and tests the limits of humanity's engagement with the non-human. By turns lyrical and narrative, the poems examine familiar subjects - environmental crisis, hawks, hospitals, the sea, barbecues, flowers, Emily Dickinson - only to find their subjects staring, sometimes fighting, back. Nature and nurture, equally red in tooth and claw, power a book-long sparring match between the overthinking poet and the ever-thoughtless universe, between the craft's isolation and the world's irrepressible variety. Gloves on and gloves off, the poet's hands destroy and build, gather and scatter, caress and strike.












