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Objects of Hunger

Objects of Hunger

Objects of Hunger
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Objects of Hunger Paperback - 2019

by Belli, E. C

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Southern Illinois Univ Pr, 2019. Paperback. New. 80 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.37 inches.
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  • Title Objects of Hunger
  • Author Belli, E. C
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 88
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Southern Illinois Univ Pr
  • Publication date 2019
  • Bookseller's Inventory # x-0809337258
  • ISBN 9780809337255 / 0809337258
  • Weight 0.35 lbs (0.16 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.4 in (22.35 x 14.99 x 1.02 cm)
  • Category Poetry
  • Library of Congress subjects POETRY / American / General
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2018026745
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.6
  • Quantity available 2

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From the publisher

By turns stoic and ravaged, but always with gutting honesty, E. C. Belli invites readers to consider the smallest rooms of the intimate in this first collection. With each poem pared down to an elemental language both slight and clear, Belli's work exhibits a surprising muscularity in its poise.

Objects of Hunger explores in reflective, raw lyrics the dread and beauty of our inner worlds as expressed through our struggles against the self and the other. Each poem is a slender organism that speaks its own mind, unafraid of pathos; the emotions here have been tried on and lived in, and the work accrues, lyric after lyric, page after page. In the second section, World War I poems are broken down and dismantled, as the voices of that era's poets meld with that of a postpartum mother, exposing a shared vernacular among these disparate experiences. Other poems in the collection explore the unraveling and entrapments of the domestic, but with tenacity in place of softness, using a lexicon gathered from Virginia Woolf's The Waves and Djuna Barnes's Nightwood, among others.

What emerges is a finely chiseled portrait of intimacy, one that takes seriously love and all discord, the fracas of reticence and familiarity. Belli gives this world to us by way of a throbbing asceticism, in an exploration of resignation, concession, persistence, and monstrosity. This collection tells what it is to need with abandon.

About the author

E.C. Belli is a bilingual poet and translator. Her translation of I, Little Asylum, a short novel by Emmanuelle Guattari, was published in 2014, and The Nothing Bird, selected poems by Pierre Peuchmaurd, appeared in 2013. She is the recipient of a 2010 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. Her work has been published in Verse, AGNI, and FIELD, among others. Her work in French has appeared in Europe: revue littraire mensuelle and PO&SIE.

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