The Small Nouns Crying Faith

Bücher

Angebote / Angebote:

Poetry. The first word in this new collection by Phil Hall is "raw" and the last word is "blurtip." Between these, many nouns cry faith within a hook-less framework that sings in chorus while undermining such standard forms and tropes as "the memoir, " "genealogy" and "the shepherd's calendar." With a rural pen, these poems talk frogs, carrots, local noises, partial words, remnants, dirt roads, deep breath and hope: "my laboratory the moment / is accordion-shaped - cluttered - sopping / & not eternal.