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David K. Leff Breach (Paperback)
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- Condition
- Book Title
- Breach
- Publication Name
- Breach
- Title
- Breach
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9781947003408
- ISBN
- 9781947003408
- Publisher
- Homebound Publications
- Genre
- Poetry
- Release Year
- 2019
- Release Date
- 06/06/2019
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 9.1in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Topic
- General, American / General
- Item Width
- 0.2in
- Item Weight
- 0.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 162 Pages
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Imagine walls could actually talk as a New England factory community faces closure of its signature mill due to environmental contamination and foreign competition. This story of politics, family life, competing redevelopment schemes, gossiping locals, and a mother fiercely protecting her children is told in the voice of common objects--from the church steeple clock to a Bridgeport milling machine to an umbrella. They witness a bit of drinking, sex, a suicide, and the hopes and dreams of the human beings around them. How did these everyday things find their voice? Readers may never again look at the ordinary objects around them the same.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Homebound Publications
ISBN-10
1947003402
ISBN-13
9781947003408
eBay Product ID (ePID)
11038758479
Product Key Features
Book Title
Breach
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, American / General
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
162 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
9.1in
Item Width
0.2in
Item Weight
0.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3612.E34968a6 2019
Reviews
"In The Breach David Leff has given a remarkable presence to what we offhandedly term "things." A chorus of objects and entities speaks about the rise and fall of a Connecticut mill. Their words are poetic yet terse, full of commonsense but regret, too, and form a chorus that has a moving, Our Town effect. What comes across in poem after poem is the fraught ordinariness of lives that have depended on the fortunes of industry, lives filled with silent testimonies that in Leff's hands are no longer silent." -Baron Wormser, Maine Poet Laureate, 2000-2006, Just as compelling as David K. Leff's story of a community that falls apart and then begins to reinvent itself is the way he tells it, by speaking through the ordinary objects that ordinarily remain in the background. His message: these clocks, desks, tools, and floorboards are witnesses to human actions. They have stories to tell and lessons to teach, if only we'd learn to listen to them. - Christopher Wigren, Deputy Director, Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation, The Breach is a book to savor. The evocative images of small-town personalities swept along by twentieth century realities lingered in my mind long after I closed the cover. It is part poetry, part drama, told through the unique voices of observant objects that are endeared to readers by their earnestness. -Susan Merrow, former Sierra Club National Board of Directors president and East Haddam, Connecticut first selectman 1991-2003, "Everyone is familiar with the old saying, 'If these walls could talk.' It's just an adage, of course. But play along for a moment. What if these walls could talk? What if that massive old oak needed to express some of what it has seen being the oldest living thing for miles? What if the time clock in the factory had something to say about the looks on peoples' faces as they punched in and out day after day after day? What if our watches could speak? Would they speak of all the reasons, important and inane, that they've checked the time? In David K. Leff's brilliant new book, The Breach - Voices Haunting a New England Mill Town, these things - and more - do speak, and Leff's recording of these subtle murmurations, is captivating, recognizable, and extraordinarily poignant. These are the astute voices of the proverbial ghosts in the machine, and the tale they tell is one of hard work, love and loss, and the heartrending toll time and progress take on all of us, and all gloriously divulged by the discreet, patient objects, large and small, with which we live, as if they can neither hear nor see us. The Breach suggests we might want to rethink that notion. This is among the most original and compelling works I've ever read. In fact, I'm pretty sure my lamp just uttered, in its light voice, David's new book is marvelous! And I couldn't agree more." - John Stanizzi, author of Hallelujah Time and Ecstasy Among Ghosts
Copyright Date
2019
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
811.6
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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