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Brink

In her third collection, Shanna Compton offers poems for our brink times: As Texas burns, the Midwest drowns. As one planet explodes, Curiosity captures stunning panoramas of Mars. As one couple survives their hundredth argument, another slips into the silent depths of an ocean trench. The poems in Brink explore the slippage between our lives and the sensation of living inside a miniseries, insistently assuring us we're still solidly here, "amidst all this news."

Brink collects shorter poems and two sequences. A long poem called "The Seam" is forthcoming in a companion volume next year.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 86
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780982658727
  • Genres
  • poetry
  • Release date
  • 2012