The Words We Do Not Have - by Steve Brisendine (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><em>In The Words We Do Not Have</em>, Steve Brisendine brings experience into sharp focus-a road trip with his son, evenings spent playing pool, an abused childhood classmate-along with meditative explorations of life, death, aging, and faith. The author employs as a title for each poem an unusual foreign word (along with its definition), a strategy that unifies the collection, while also yielding delightful and unexpected trajectories as the poems unfold. Brisendine's imaginative lexicon offers us a space where "a heart has/ spilled itself, where words bloomed/ into something past words."</p><p> </p><p> -Janice Northerns, author of<em> Some Electric Hum</em></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>"We have enough wind in Kansas," Steve Brisendine opens his excellent new book. "When you / walk into it, it pulls." Beginning with the language of wind, Brisbane reveals a dark world through a series of tongues. In "Mokita," a classmate is abused and silent, eventually dead. We learn the title's Kilivila meaning: "something everyone knows but no one talks about." Outlining a "slippery downhill way," these grave, sometimes minutial poems (as in "Qarba," the appearance of white hairs in a man's beard) highlight how life gives us "hope of reunion . . . but also the knowledge that such might never happen. Dark, global, nuanced in how it reveals a gritty world." </p><p><br></p><p> -Tyler Robert Sheldon, Editor-in-Chief of </p><p> <em>MockingHeart Review</em> and author of <em>Consolation </em></p><p><em> Prize</em> (Finishing Line Press, 2018)</p>
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