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Brute (Paperback)
Emily Skaja
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Selected by Joy Harjo as the winner of the Walt Whitman Award of
the Academy of American Poets 'Taut, ferocious . . . This is a book
about survival, and a welcome, confident debut' New York Times Book
Review Emily Skaja's debut collection is a fiery, hypnotic book
that confronts the dark questions and menacing silences around
gender, sexuality and violence. Brute arises, brave and furious,
from the dissolution of a relationship, showing how such endings
necessitate self-discovery and reinvention. The speaker of these
poems is a sorceress, a bride, a warrior, a lover, both object and
agent, ricocheting among ways of knowing and being known. Each
incarnation squares itself up against ideas of feminine virtue and
sin, strength and vulnerability, love and rage, as it closes in on
a hard-won freedom. Brute is absolutely sure of its capacity to
insist not only on the truth of what it says but on the truth of
its right to say it. 'What am I supposed to say: I'm free?' the
first poem asks. The rest of the poems emphatically discover new
ways to answer. This is a timely winner of the Walt Whitman Award,
and an introduction to an unforgettable voice.
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