$19.95
Full-length debut! Signed by the author, who, if he knows you, will write a very loving message.
Release date: July 1, 2023
Please note that this is a pre-order. Items will ship after release– exactly when that happens will depend on when I get copies from Black Spring Press Group.
Description
Charm Offensive, Ross White’s debut poetry collection, explores the space between Dickinson’s directive to tell the truth slant and the universal reality of seeing the truth slant without knowing it. Charting the ways that tenderness can resolve into dissonance and uncertainty can resolve into transcendence, Charm Offensive crackles with the dangers of being alive and the joys of remaining defiant. At turns playful and surreal, exuberant and somber, these poems urge readers to find something new to trust in the world.
Ross White’s Charm Offensive is an epistemic delight. When White writes, “I am ready to leave/this body, ready to ascend to star if you beat me out of me,” we understand how deeply the narrator of these poems seeks relief from the self, from the minor (paunchy belly) and major (failing heart) indignities of aging, from the indignity of daily living among indifferent gods. Who among us hasn’t looked inside a fortune cookie, hoping for knowledge of a better day? But White knows that the best teacher we have is the love we feel for another, for their beauty and their damage, for the love that accepts our self when we cannot. Finally, and most essentially, these poems are funny, and the ultimate joke is our touchingly unflagging persistence. — Rebecca Hazelton, author of Gloss
Additional information
Weight | .5 oz |
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