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Rise and Float
Poems
Brian Tierney
- 88 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Rise and Float
Poems
Brian Tierney
About This Book
Chosen by Randall Mann as a winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, Brian Tierney's Rise and Float depicts the journey of a poet workingâremarkably, miraculouslyâto make our most profound, private wounds visible on the page.With the "corpse of Frost" under his heel, Tierney reckons with a life that resists poetic rendition. The transgenerational impact of mental illness, a struggle with disordered eating, a father's death from cancer, the loss of loved ones to addiction and suicideâall of these compound to "month after / month" and "dream / after dream" of struck-through lines. Still, Tierney commands poetry's cathartic potential through searing images: wallpaper peeling like "wrist skin when a grater slips, " a "laugh as good as a scream, " pears as hard as a tumor. These poems commune with their ghosts not to overcome, but to release.The course of Rise and Float is not straightforward. Where one poem gently confesses to "trying, these days, to believe again / in people, " another concedes that "defeat / sometimes is defeat / without purpose." Look: the chair is just a chair." But therein lies the beauty of this collection: in the proximity (and occasional overlap) of these voices, we see something alluringly, openly human. Between a boy "torn open" by dogs and a suicide, "two beautiful teenagers are kissing." Between screams, something intimateâhope, however difficult it may be.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Epigraph
- Wormhole
- Howard Johnsonâs
- rorschach #1
- Greystone Park
- Eleven
- Cottman Avenue House Party
- Teletherapy
- bulimia
- Ideation
- Time and Tide
- Nothing Has Passed Between Us but Time
- Episode
- Hearses
- Polyphagia
- To the Reasoning of Eternal Voices
- The Fly in the Bottle
- Tailpipe
- Tied Islands
- Earth Is Not a Door
- Bridge
- Preamble With a Pilgrimage Inside
- Fixing a Hole
- Felled Cherry Plum
- Breakdown
- All Stars Are Lights, Not All Lights Are Stars
- Judas
- Whatever Wonât Rise Becomes the Night
- Migraine
- Anthropocene
- Youâre the One I Wanna Watch the Last Ships Go Down With
- Notes
- Acknowledgments