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Boats in the Attic (Paperback)
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Boats in the Attic (Paperback)
Series: Poets Out Loud
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List price R503
Loot Price R409
Discovery Miles 4 090
You Save R94 (19%)
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Boats in the Attic is a sweeping, poignant exploration of what it
means to be an individual and, in particular, what it means to be a
parent of young children, in our current time of crisis. Errands
must be run, the radio plays, and the child wants the birthday
girl's balloon-all while sea levels are rising and wild wolves roam
the acres of Chernobyl, "developing a cryptography to a century /
to which we are not invited." In this dynamic collection, Powell
intersperses lyric flight and prose fragments with metacommentary,
nuance, and a beguiling sense of humor. At the same time, these
pieces are securely tethered to the material difficulties of being
a human in today's world, where a child must participate in a
lockdown drill at his preschool and a dying woman turns to Reddit
to fund her efforts to be cryogenetically preserved. Conversations
between the speaker and her children trace the beauty and terror of
existential indeterminacy: "We begin to consider other planets - /
Will they have us?" In a long piece titled "Book of Revelation,"
the speaker dreams that "below the bed / is an encyclopedia of lost
things," a phrase that captures the collection's wide range and its
categorizing eye. Powell turns to astronomy, Alice in Wonderland,
Millerism, and culinary cruelty, with a uniquely celebratory and
elegiac voice, all in an effort to understand the depths, and
effects, of the human appetite for pleasure, power, and escape.
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