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THE TRUE ACCOUNT OF MYSELF AS A BIRD
By: Robert Wrigley
Penguin Poets
Penguin Books
June 2022
On Sale: June 14, 2022
112 pages
ISBN: 0143137247
EAN: 9780143137245
Kindle: B09GW1F3ZR
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Over the course of his career Robert Wrigley has won acclaim for the emotional toughness, sonic richness, and lucid style of his poems, and for his ability to fuse narrative and lyrical impulses. In his new collection, Wrigley means to use poetry to capture the primal conversation between human beings and the perilously threatened planet on which they love and live, proceeding from a line from Auden: “All we are not stares back at what we are.” In language that is both elegiac and playful, declarative and yet ringingly musical; in traditional sonnets, quatrains, and free verse, Wrigley transcribes the consciousness and significance of every singing thing—in order to sing back.
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