Bibliograph

Bone Map:, poems, Sara Eliza Johnson

Type

Label

Bone Map:, poems, Sara Eliza Johnson

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Bone Map:

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Sara Eliza Johnson

Series statement

National poetry series

Sub title

poems

Summary

Sara Eliza Johnson's stunning, deeply visceral first collection, Bone Map, pulls shards of tenderness from a world on the verge of collapse, where violence and terror infuse the body, the landscape, and dreams: a handful of blackberries offered from bloodied arms, bee stings likened to pulses of sunlight, a honeycomb of marrow exposed. "All moments will shine if you cut them open. / Will glisten like entrails in the sun." With figurative language that makes long, associative leaps, and with metaphors and images that continually resurrect themselves across poems, the collection builds and transforms its world through a locomotive echo a regenerative force that comes to parallel the psychic quest for redemption that unfolds in its second half. The result is a deeply affecting composition that will establish the already decorated young author as an important and vital new voice in American poetry

Target audience

adult

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