Failure to Thrive
1st Edition
Published on 1. April 2014
96 pages
978-1-77090-531-3 (ISBN)
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Dumpster fires outside discount stores and rotting whale carcasses, optical illusions and memento mori-all 'coming to you direct, / by way of this Rube Goldberg machine.' Failure to Thrive zigzags through excess, taking in the big picture through the lens of a pinhole camera. These poems ask us to lean into our senses, to 'spend time loitering, slipping coins into attention's slots, / anticipating the next big pay-off.' Suzannah Showler's debut shows us how a failing world can be the site of aesthetic renewal rather than decline.
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