The Blood Barn (Paperback or Softback)
Language: English
Published by Inside the Castle 3/11/2019, 2019
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The Blood Barn.
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- Title
- The Blood Barn (Paperback or Softback)
- Author
- Lorig, Carrie
- Publisher
- Inside the Castle 3/11/2019
- Publication year
- 2019
- Condition
- New
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Paperback or Softback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1732797110
- ISBN 13
- 9781732797116
- Item weight
- 0.77 pounds
A book of five interconnected poems, all called THE BLOOD BARN, by American poet Carrie Lorig. A formally complex and emotionally formal book of poetry confronting trauma and body dysmorphia. Full color.
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I read The Blood Barn in a single sitting and felt pain in my back--the pain that comes when I am slouched too long over a text, or one of a handful of memories. Usually, when this happens, I do what I can to ameliorate it: I stand up, I move, I turn on the warm water, I take medicine. This time, I decided to sit with it until I finished reading. Not just because book gripped me fiercely, like a novel, as one of the voices in this collection characterizes it from within--but also because these poems get as close to the body in pain as I have ever seen happen in language. They press up against a body's throbbing history and attend to its wordless thinking; they are "learning how to suffer." I have tried and failed at that learning many times, but this book makes me unafraid to try (and fail) again. The Blood Barn switches out the staleness of "process" for unflinching ceremony, parades of color that bloom and explode as rashes and flowers and blood from the face. It insists on the possibility of refusing both survival and disappearance, those bludgeons women are offered for giving shape to what's happened to them / to us / to ____. This is a book that writhes against the definitive singular or plural or possessive pronoun, against the lie that history can be owned, and with the bodies that swell and scab under that lie. Yes, this is a book about a hurt and an illness that happened to a person in the past, but it is not about cure or convalescence. It is about the capacity to take care where none existed before, the forgiving space of correspondence / being beside oneself and others, the body as a gem stuck to a pulsing mountain. That is: the risk, the horror, the possibility of healing without end. There's been much talk lately about the problems of narrative when it comes to trauma, the violence of past-present-future, but The Blood Barn asks whether and why poetry gets to be the solution. The problem here is grammar, not genre: "It is hard to write after it" because after is always half a lie, because "There are no words in America's wealth / for what the physical body is capable of experiencing." A body approaches a novel and a poem and a series of letters and asks them all where the blood is. And so, Lorig writes, "I will never write poems that look like poems." What a labor. What a relief. What a blessing.
Liz Bowen
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