Hold Like Owls

Hold Like Owls
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Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Total Pages : 67
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ISBN-10 : 9781611172652
ISBN-13 : 1611172659
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Hold Like Owls by : Julia Koets

Download or read book Hold Like Owls written by Julia Koets and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2013-01-23 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by 2011 National Book Award winner Nikky Finney as the seventh annual winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize, Hold Like Owls is the first book-length collection from Julia Koets. Full of imagery deeply embedded in memories of growing up in the American South, Koets explores what it means to hold—to carry memories—and what to hold onto and what to let go. Birds turn into paper, a voice fits inside a chestnut shell, and moths eat stars through a woolen sky as the collection evokes nuance within the ordinary, reframes childhood memory, and engages the themes of the night, sensuality, and desire. Whether questioning personal histories, language, sexual identity, or love, the collection honors the "gentle corners of the night" that allow for questioning and uncertainty to exist.


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