Description
Mason Jar Press, paperback
Publication Date: September 30, 2020
Publisher Marketing:
Suppose Muscle, Suppose Night, Suppose This in August explores how anxiety and escape can shape a life from childhood to adulthood. This hybrid of lyrical essays and poetry weaves a delicate thread across the country, through dreams and nightmares, euphoria and fear, and intimacy and distance, always with particular attention to form and language. With dreamlike imagery, a unique inventiveness, and emotional clarity, the collection dissects that which we are too afraid to touch in our waking hours.
Danielle Zaccagnino’s genius is for collage, in poem, essay, and lyrical hybrid. And it is genius. “I don’t have [a philosophy of fragmentation],” she writes, “or at least don’t think I do. It just feels right.” As Zaccagnino’s youthful persona negotiates “a broken world,” she forges an answerable self, and her kinetic wit recalls that of Bill Knott and Lorrie Moore. Her writing is consistently lived, honest, and inspired, as suggested by titles such as “Edibles: A Primer,” “Now When I Hear Body Farm,” and “Touch, and a Fracturing,” and such lines as “constantly practice/distortion of perspective” or “everyone is someone I’ve met before/ and I didn’t like them the first time.” —DeWitt Henry, author of Sweet Marjoram, Notes and Essays
Explore more from our collection.
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.