Worth Burning (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Mickie Kennedy | knygos.lt

Aprašymas

Worth Burning crackles with the heat of a burn barrel. With a novelist's attention to character and narrative trajectory, Kennedy glides through four decades of hushed family secrets, untimely death, forbidden desire, and the omnipresent threat of AIDS, looming like a haze of smoke. Through searing confession and stark image-making, Kennedy excavates the contours of a life-- a life that persistently bends, against all odds, towards a ramshackle wholeness.

With efficient, image-rich narrative poems, Kennedy makes this sweeping story feel intimate, like a love note passed in secret. Every so often, erupting like a gasp of breath, a lyrical poem makes an appearance-- an attempt to break language open, giving voice to a woundedness that ordinary diction can't hold. Towards the end of one such lyrical burst, the speaker offers a rugged hope: " a mother marks the water's anger / the child failures into length." Sometimes that's all we can do, Worth Burning suggests. Fail our way forward. Climb inside a spaciousness that bears the weight of who we were, and who we are.