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Hesitating Once to Feel Glory
Maleea Acker’s dauntless new poetry collection is crafted with emotion and bold style.Any day now I shall be released to the Bangladesh runaway,
its burnt out plane a little hulk from a different dimension,a researcher of longing, no one selling Heineken
from a cooler in its unlit aisles, no one with a line to God.Acker’s poems hang on precipices of emotion. They cartwheel from sadness to glory, then break into blossoms in a drought-struck landscape of longing. These are poems filled with daring leaps and precise, deft metaphors. There is machinery, there are imaginaries; a dictator selects the musical soundtrack. The poems cajole and praise both the world and interior life with an erotic charge and enduring hope.
“Acker summons a sad, mysterious music, the self talking to the self as though after the end of the world. A book of mesmerizing lamentations, at once precise and surreal.”
– —Jan Zwicky
“To read Acker’s poetry from Mexico is to celebrate my own country. Her poems are inhabited by taquerias, by the characters I encounter daily, by the codes of coexistence that are not easy for a foreigner to understand and adopt. Reading this collection, too, is to recognize that it is these everyday details—the taquerias, the people and codes—that make a community meaningful, full of import, and, at the same time, lend an ethical dimension to the life of the individual.”
– Argel Corpus
– —Jan Zwicky
“To read Acker’s poetry from Mexico is to celebrate my own country. Her poems are inhabited by taquerias, by the characters I encounter daily, by the codes of coexistence that are not easy for a foreigner to understand and adopt. Reading this collection, too, is to recognize that it is these everyday details—the taquerias, the people and codes—that make a community meaningful, full of import, and, at the same time, lend an ethical dimension to the life of the individual.”
– Argel Corpus
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Dimensions:
78 Pages
8in * 5.5in * 0.2053in
Published:
April 30, 2022
City of Publication:
Gibsons, BC
Country of Publication:
CA
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ISBN:
9780889714144
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Language:
eng
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