Slick Like Dark - Softcover

Wade, Meg

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1946482315 ISBN 13: 9781946482310

Publisher: Tupelo Press, Incorporated, 2020

Synopsis

Delving into dark desire and mystery, Slick Like Dark pierces through the noise of aimless reality. These collected poems are haunting and passionate, honest and vivid, asking who bears the blame as they scatter us about the South. Poet Meg Wade carefully crafts an examination of the Southern body and the experience of a woman living in it. Depicting relationships, personal struggles and religion, lines such as “A wasp/nest, gristled angels/it’s strange, how scared/I am-quick write/down” show the complexities of creativity. Wade brings us into the intensity of this strangely relatable life while reflecting on the darker sides of what could be done or what could have been. In her characteristic, poignant style, Wade writes “This could have been a place where I would love him like a woman/who wants to have babies would”, leaving open the harsh possibilities of love unredeemed. As thrilling as they are contemplative, these poems bring us to realizations we would have shied from before.

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About the Author

Meg Wade has been a National Poetry Series finalist and a Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin's Creative Writing Institute. She received her MFA from the University of Arizona and has been the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize and a full residency from the New York Summer Writer's Institute. Her poems have been widely published and anthologized. She lives and writes in Nashville, Tennessee.

Edition details

• Publisher: Tupelo Press, Incorporated
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1946482315
• ISBN 13: 9781946482310
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 41