"How Blood Works is a collection of poems that considers the way memory, identitify, and our very blood take shape in the places we inhabit: rooms, cities, landscapes, and spaces within the body. Moore examines the idea of bloodlines--literal familial ties and the traumas, secrets, and complex relationships passed from one generation to the next. To explore these motifs, many of the poems borrow from the world of visual art, including painting, sculpture, and its resonance with the creation of the self, and architecture, too, as a metaphorical counterweight to nature. In keeping with the central theme that the stories we tell ourselves--and, by extension, our understanding of who we are--are shaped by the spaces in which we tell them, the poems in How Blood Works vary in form. From traditionally lineated lyrics to more architectural, segmented prose pieces, the poems themselves become a space for narratives of the self to play out."--Back cover.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1606354272
ISBN13:9781606354278
Release Date:August 2021
Publisher:Kent State University Press
Length:104 Pages
Weight:0.25 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 5.4" x 8.3"
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