Ishmael Mask

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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Poems that consider the instability of identity through fictional and religious characters. In Ishmael Mask, Charles Kell reminds us that identity is precarious. Kell’s collection is a collage of the journeys and interior lives of various wanderers—from Ishmael, the son of Hagar, to Melville’s Ishmael, and from Pierre of The Ambiguities to Pierre Guyotat. Each poem strips back the mask and beckons us to witness humanity in its barest forms. Captain Ahab’s leg, Ishmael’s arm, and Pierre’s severed head serve as invitations to consider hunger and hope. The inspirations behind these poems—the Bible, Heraclitus, Melville, Guyotat, Tomaž Šalamun—are transformed by Kell, conjuring dreamscapes both dazzling and haunting. Ishmael Mask masterfully allows a glimpse into the human experience of feeling lost—even when right at home, even in our own bodies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-03-02
Mått:6 x 9 x 20 mm
Vikt:162 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:88
Förlag:Autumn House Press
ISBN:9781637680704

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Charles Kell is the author of Cage of Lit Glass, winner of the 2018 Autumn House Poetry Prize. His poetry and fiction have been published in the Brooklyn Rail, Laurel Review, Hobart, New Orleans Review, Saint Ann’s Review, Kestrel, Columbia Journal, and elsewhere. He is assistant professor of English at the Community College of Rhode Island and editor of the Ocean State Review.

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"Kell’s flinty, ironic, fatalist tone is lyrically apprehensive and well-matched to detailing the mask of maleness—the strength and importance, pain and brutality, and power struggles among men and within 'every / man' . . . Impossible reflection, dear readers, is where love and art intersect, where Kell’s mix of narrative and absurdist poems live their lives in words both 'deeply felt' and 'unfeeling.' But this presents a 'false dichotomy,' reminding us 'that one can draw / loss, draw frost without anyone knowing.' When reading Kell’s 'sensualist' poems I encounter a poet willing to allow all aspects of self to become 'unmoored,' even unmasked."