The Tiniest Muzzle Sings Songs of Freedom
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The Tiniest Muzzle Sings Songs of Freedom
By (Author) Magdalena Zurawski
Wave Books
Wave Books
9th July 2019
United States
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Hardback
88
Width 177mm, Height 241mm
Description
Taking readers from suburban carports to wintry Russian novels, from summer tomato gardens to the sublime interiors of presleep thoughts, Magdalena Zurawskis poems anchor the complexities of our interconnected world in the singularity of the human experience. Balancing artistic experimentation with earnest expression, achingly real detail with dazzling prismatic abstraction, humor with frustration, light with dark, she offers a book of great human depth that is to be carried around, opened to anywhere, and encountered.
Reviews
These poems are hyper-aware of their contradictions, yet completely emotionally vulnerable. They refuse cynicism and pretense, and such a refusal explodes any possibility of intellectual distancing or emotional hiding.--Jennifer Moxley, Poetry Society of America
Because the poems are not charged with having to be about anything . . . their bareness becomes their subject. Their lines, skinny and brusque, feel precarious. . . . 'What is of value in a poem besides its meaning' Zurawski, writing in solitude, seems to offer this answer: the transaction between the reader and the poet. The book's dedication reads 'for you.'--Darcie Dennigan, Boston Review
A book of poetry that asserts itself with the various boundaries of open forms.--Woodland Pattern
Author Bio
Magdalena Zurawski is the author of the novel The Bruise, which won the Ronald Sukenick Award from FC2 in 2008 and a LAMBDA literary award in 2009, and the collection of poems Companion Animal, which was published by Litmus Press in 2015 and won a Norma Faber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. She attended Brown University where she studied with poets Rosmarie and Keith Waldrop, C.D. Wright, and Peter Gizzi. She has lived in Berlin, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Durham, NC where she ran the Minor American Reading Series. She is currently Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Georgia.
