Description: Wingless by Zachary Riddle FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography In his second chapbook of poetry, Zachary Riddle recounts the memories and nightmares of a childhood in a divorced household. In these poems, we see the speaker haunted by monsters and movies, by gender and parenthood, by relationships both familial and not. Riddles poems remind us that though our lives may at times be submerged in the dark, that the light still lingers ahead. Review In Wingless, we soar into the limitless and fearless vistas of Zachary Riddles imagination. An unflinching, brilliant debut collection of superbly rich, musical, spectral, transcendent lyrics, this book is evidence of a young poet with his heart aimed--beyond the nightmarish film griefs horror-shadows cast--toward the bright sky.--Robert Fanning, author of Our Sudden Museum, American Prophet and The Seed Thieves From the very first poem we are plunged into the apocalyptic mythology Riddle so masterfully creates, caught in his noir net of memory and agony. There is no escape here. No wings for poet or reader to fly away. We are haunted by his stories of childhood and the death of his mostly absent father. Nightmarish scenes of wolves, forests, bound or severed wings, blood and corpses reappear as if in a horror film, like the films he also writes about in this book. It is a chilling and heartbreaking collection of poems, a vulnerable mind trying to save itself from itself and a terrible reality. "I was born haunted", Riddle says in one of his compelling poems, and in another "every night I ...make space for the ruins of your ghost". Beware his ghosts. Like his poems, once they enter your mind, they will not let you go for a long, long time.--Zilka Joseph, author of Sharp Blue Search of Flame, What Dread, and Lands I Live In Like the child in the opening poem who watches with fascination a brutally murdered corpse on television, the poems in Zachary Riddles Wingless refuse to look away from the horrors of grief and the messy agony of human loss. A sequence of elegies for the speakers dead father, this excellent book is shot through with truly frightening images, haunting surrealism, and horror-movie tropes into which Riddle breathes fresh life with finely-tuned language and startling metaphors. When children speak in these poems, they often ask the old, important questions--What happens when we die?--and the adults that people Riddles world never offer comforting answers. This book will not comfort you. It will wake you up and keep you up at night. It will teach you much about the ways death, violence, and mourning hold sway over our families, our bodies, and our lives. It is a fierce, unforgettable debut from an important new voice.--Jeffrey Bean, author of Diminished Fifth, Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window, The Voyeurs Litany, and Woman Putting on Pearls Details ISBN1635345359 Author Zachary Riddle Language English Year 2018 ISBN-10 1635345359 ISBN-13 9781635345353 Format Paperback Pages 44 Publisher Finishing Line Press Publication Date 2018-06-29 Imprint Finishing Line Press Illustrations Illustrations, black and white Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159705855;
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