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- Condition
- Book Title
- Brute : Poems
- Publication Name
- Brute
- Title
- Brute
- Subtitle
- Poems
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 1555978355
- EAN
- 9781555978358
- ISBN
- 9781555978358
- Publisher
- Graywolf Press
- Genre
- Poetry
- Topic
- General, American / General
- Release Date
- 01/05/2019
- Release Year
- 2019
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.2in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Item Width
- 7in
- Item Weight
- 6 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Number of Pages
- 72 Pages
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Emily Skaja's debut collection is a fiery, hypnotic book that confronts the dark questions and menacing silences around gender, sexuality, and violence. Brute arises, brave and furious, from the dissolution of a relationship, showing how such endings necessitate self-discovery and reinvention. The speaker of these poems is a sorceress, a bride, a warrior, a lover, both object and agent, ricocheting among ways of knowing and being known. Each incarnation squares itself up against ideas of feminine virtue and sin, strength and vulnerability, love and rage, as it closes in on a hard-won freedom. Brute is absolutely sure of its capacity to insist not only on the truth of what it says but on the truth of its right to say it. "What am I supposed to say: I'm free?" the first poem asks. The rest of the poems emphatically discover new ways to answer. This is a timely winner of the Walt Whitman Award, and an introduction to an unforgettable voice.
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Publisher
Graywolf Press
ISBN-10
1555978355
ISBN-13
9781555978358
eBay Product ID (ePID)
22038389542
Product Key Features
Book Title
Brute : Poems
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, American / General
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
72 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.2in
Item Width
7in
Item Weight
6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3619
Reviews
"Emily Skaja's Brute is at once terrifying and hypnotic, strange and yet profoundly meaningful. . . . Skaja's strangeness is emotive and as such her complex poetry demands attention and easily enchants readers with the need to know more. Satisfied and panting, the reader is hooked--this collection is nothing short of phenomenal." -- Crab Fat Magazine "Emily Skaja reaches for nature in Brute to overcome the loss of an abusive lover, to overcome grief. . . . Skaja knows exactly how to engage nature, readers, and life. Her diverse poetics prove her broad range of skills. She takes risks. . . . All poems in Brute flow with precision and ease." -- The New York Journal of Books "The poems in Emily Skaja's Brute speak of brutality, of breaking, of endings, of beginnings. Brute is an elegy for a relationship's end, an intimate excavation, but also, these poems are a rhapsody, a rage. Skaja's poetry is deft, nimble, willing to inhabit contradictions--'What is this impulse in me to worship & crucify / anyone who leaves me.' Each poem is exquisitely crafted, visceral, indelible. Brute will cut right through you, cut deep, but the writing is so assured, so necessary, that you will welcome the wound." --Roxane Gay " Brute , though a collection of singular poems, is essentially one long, elegiac howl for the end of a relationship. It never lets up--this living--even when the world as we knew it is crushed. So what do we do with the brokenness? We document it, as Emily Skaja has done in Brute . We sing of the brokenness as we emerge from it. We sing the holy objects, the white moths that fly from our mouths, and we stand with the new, wet earth that has been created with our terrible songs." --Joy Harjo, judge's citation for the Walt Whitman Award, "Skaja's poems are both primal scream-songs and elegies to the end of a relationship. . . . With relentless, driving energy, Skaja's poems seek brutal truths while searching for meaningful transformation." -- Booklist "Emily Skaja reaches for nature in Brute to overcome the loss of an abusive lover, to overcome grief. . . . Skaja knows exactly how to engage nature, readers, and life. Her diverse poetics prove her broad range of skills. She takes risks. . . . All poems in Brute flow with precision and ease." -- The New York Journal of Books "Emily Skaja's Brute is at once terrifying and hypnotic, strange and yet profoundly meaningful. . . . Skaja's strangeness is emotive and as such her complex poetry demands attention and easily enchants readers with the need to know more. Satisfied and panting, the reader is hooked--this collection is nothing short of phenomenal." -- Crab Fat Magazine "The poems in Emily Skaja's Brute speak of brutality, of breaking, of endings, of beginnings. Brute is an elegy for a relationship's end, an intimate excavation, but also, these poems are a rhapsody, a rage. Skaja's poetry is deft, nimble, willing to inhabit contradictions--'What is this impulse in me to worship & crucify / anyone who leaves me.' Each poem is exquisitely crafted, visceral, indelible. Brute will cut right through you, cut deep, but the writing is so assured, so necessary, that you will welcome the wound." --Roxane Gay " Brute , though a collection of singular poems, is essentially one long, elegiac howl for the end of a relationship. It never lets up--this living--even when the world as we knew it is crushed. So what do we do with the brokenness? We document it, as Emily Skaja has done in Brute . We sing of the brokenness as we emerge from it. We sing the holy objects, the white moths that fly from our mouths, and we stand with the new, wet earth that has been created with our terrible songs." --Joy Harjo, judge's citation for the Walt Whitman Award, "[In Brute ], the anguish comes from an emotionally abusive lover and the abrupt end of a relationship. As the speaker excavates her grief and disbelief, she slowly moves from self-condemnation to a fiery insistence that she can overcome her boyfriend's damaging assessments of her worth and reclaim the power she once had. . . . The speaker's brutal honesty and emotional transformation offer an engrossing guide for anyone dealing with a devastating loss." -- The Washington Post "Emily Skaja's [ Brute ] is lyrical, visceral, sharp like a fang, and filled with lines that pierce and prod and stay embedded inside your skin." -- NYLON "The first section of [ Brute ] ends with a poem of exile: self-imposed, absolutely necessary, freeing. . . . There's everything in this strong debut." -- The Millions "Emily Skaja reaches for nature in Brute to overcome the loss of an abusive lover, to overcome grief. . . . Skaja knows exactly how to engage nature, readers, and life. Her diverse poetics prove her broad range of skills. She takes risks. . . . All poems in Brute flow with precision and ease." -- The New York Journal of Books "Skaja's poems are both primal scream-songs and elegies to the end of a relationship. . . . With relentless, driving energy, Skaja's poems seek brutal truths while searching for meaningful transformation." -- Booklist "Emily Skaja's Brute is at once terrifying and hypnotic, strange and yet profoundly meaningful. . . . Skaja's strangeness is emotive and as such her complex poetry demands attention and easily enchants readers with the need to know more. Satisfied and panting, the reader is hooked--this collection is nothing short of phenomenal." -- Crab Fat Magazine "The poems in Emily Skaja's Brute speak of brutality, of breaking, of endings, of beginnings. Brute is an elegy for a relationship's end, an intimate excavation, but also, these poems are a rhapsody, a rage. Skaja's poetry is deft, nimble, willing to inhabit contradictions--'What is this impulse in me to worship & crucify / anyone who leaves me.' Each poem is exquisitely crafted, visceral, indelible. Brute will cut right through you, cut deep, but the writing is so assured, so necessary, that you will welcome the wound." --Roxane Gay " Brute , though a collection of singular poems, is essentially one long, elegiac howl for the end of a relationship. It never lets up--this living--even when the world as we knew it is crushed. So what do we do with the brokenness? We document it, as Emily Skaja has done in Brute . We sing of the brokenness as we emerge from it. We sing the holy objects, the white moths that fly from our mouths, and we stand with the new, wet earth that has been created with our terrible songs." --Joy Harjo, judge's citation for the Walt Whitman Award, "What happens when rage and grief transform us, when our bodily fury makes us feel animal? What language do we use to howl such feral moments? These are the questions that animate Skaja's taut, ferocious debut, Brute. . . . This is a book about survival, and a welcome, confident debut." -- The New York Times Book Review "[In Brute ], the anguish comes from an emotionally abusive lover and the abrupt end of a relationship. As the speaker excavates her grief and disbelief, she slowly moves from self-condemnation to a fiery insistence that she can overcome her boyfriend's damaging assessments of her worth and reclaim the power she once had. . . . The speaker's brutal honesty and emotional transformation offer an engrossing guide for anyone dealing with a devastating loss." -- The Washington Post "Emily Skaja's [ Brute ] is lyrical, visceral, sharp like a fang, and filled with lines that pierce and prod and stay embedded inside your skin." -- NYLON "The first section of [ Brute ] ends with a poem of exile: self-imposed, absolutely necessary, freeing. . . . There's everything in this strong debut." -- The Millions "Emily Skaja reaches for nature in Brute to overcome the loss of an abusive lover, to overcome grief. . . . Skaja knows exactly how to engage nature, readers, and life. Her diverse poetics prove her broad range of skills. She takes risks. . . . All poems in Brute flow with precision and ease." -- The New York Journal of Books "Skaja's poems are both primal scream-songs and elegies to the end of a relationship. . . . With relentless, driving energy, Skaja's poems seek brutal truths while searching for meaningful transformation." -- Booklist "Emily Skaja's Brute is at once terrifying and hypnotic, strange and yet profoundly meaningful. . . . Skaja's strangeness is emotive and as such her complex poetry demands attention and easily enchants readers with the need to know more. Satisfied and panting, the reader is hooked--this collection is nothing short of phenomenal." -- Crab Fat Magazine "The poems in Emily Skaja's Brute speak of brutality, of breaking, of endings, of beginnings. Brute is an elegy for a relationship's end, an intimate excavation, but also, these poems are a rhapsody, a rage. Skaja's poetry is deft, nimble, willing to inhabit contradictions--'What is this impulse in me to worship & crucify / anyone who leaves me.' Each poem is exquisitely crafted, visceral, indelible. Brute will cut right through you, cut deep, but the writing is so assured, so necessary, that you will welcome the wound." --Roxane Gay " Brute , though a collection of singular poems, is essentially one long, elegiac howl for the end of a relationship. It never lets up--this living--even when the world as we knew it is crushed. So what do we do with the brokenness? We document it, as Emily Skaja has done in Brute . We sing of the brokenness as we emerge from it. We sing the holy objects, the white moths that fly from our mouths, and we stand with the new, wet earth that has been created with our terrible songs." --Joy Harjo, judge's citation for the Walt Whitman Award, "The poems in Emily Skaja's Brute speak of brutality, of breaking, of endings, of beginnings. Brute is an elegy for a relationship's end, an intimate excavation, but also, these poems are a rhapsody, a rage. Skaja's poetry is deft, nimble, willing to inhabit contradictions--'What is this impulse in me to worship & crucify / anyone who leaves me.' Each poem is exquisitely crafted, visceral, indelible. Brute will cut right through you, cut deep, but the writing is so assured, so necessary, that you will welcome the wound." --Roxane Gay " Brute , though a collection of singular poems, is essentially one long, elegiac howl for the end of a relationship. It never lets up--this living--even when the world as we knew it is crushed. So what do we do with the brokenness? We document it, as Emily Skaja has done in Brute . We sing of the brokenness as we emerge from it. We sing the holy objects, the white moths that fly from our mouths, and we stand with the new, wet earth that has been created with our terrible songs." --Joy Harjo, judge's citation for the Walt Whitman Award
Copyright Date
2019
Target Audience
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2018-947085
Dewey Decimal
811.6
Dewey Edition
23
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