Scared Violent Like Horses Poems【電子書籍】[ John McCarthy ]

＜p＞＜strong＞In this poetry collection, the author of ＜em＞Ghost Country＜/em＞ deeply examines violent masculinity, driven by a yearning for more compassionate ways of being.＜/strong＞＜br /＞ McCarthy's flyover country is populated by a family strangled by silence: a father drunk and mute in the passenger seat, a mother sinking into bed like a dish at the bottom of a sink, and a boy whose friends play punch-for-punch for fun. He shows us a boy struggling to understand pain carried down through generations and how quickly abandonment becomes a silent kind of violence; "how we deny each other, daily, so many chances to care," and how "we didn't know how to talk about loss, / so we made each other lose." Constant throughout is the brutality of the Midwestern landscape that, like the people who inhabit it, turns out to be beautiful in its vulnerability: sedge grass littered with plastic bags floating like ghosts, dilapidated houses with abandoned Fisher Price toys in the yard, and silos of dirt ．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る