Description
In spare lyrics, evocative of what George Oppen called ""the bright light of shipwreck,"" Beduya searches not just for the meaning of being numerous but how to sustain that numerousness, with ""No trace showing / The quickest way back / No light caught / In the hair of the void."" The poems are fierce, tensile, and assured, but also display a heartbreaking vulnerability: ""Who belongs / To this wounded face / How do we / Extinguish our hands / In prayer."" The ethics of beauty in the face of violence contend with and haunt the forms of political desire in this marvellous and unexpected debut.
About the Author
Jose Perez Beduya lives in Ithaca, New York. He has a bachelor's degree in painting from the University of the Philippines and an MFA in creative writing from Cornell University. He received the 2011 Madeleine P. Plonsker Emerging Writer's Residency Prize for Throng.
Book Information
ISBN 9780982315675
Author Jose Perez Beduya
Format Paperback
Page Count 114
Imprint Lake Forest College
Publisher Lake Forest College