Cord Swell: Poems by Crowell, Brittny Ray
Cord Swell: Poems by Crowell, Brittny Ray

Cord Swell: Poems

How can we memorialize our dead? How can that memorialization rend the veil between the dead and...
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Author: Brittny Ray Crowell
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Cord Swell: Poems by Crowell, Brittny Ray

Cord Swell: Poems

$41.40
Cord Swell: Poems by Crowell, Brittny Ray

Cord Swell: Poems

$41.40
Author: Brittny Ray Crowell
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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How can we memorialize our dead? How can that memorialization rend the veil between the dead and the living? In her debut volume, brittny ray crowell sifts through decades of obituaries, journals, and other ephemera to exhume the generations of her family from her hometown of Texarkana, Texas. She preserves her relatives' stories in writing and in works of collage, a style of archive that layers the past and the present literally and poetically.

This unique approach transforms Cord Swell into an altar, an artistically enshrined space where crowell communes with the past and looks to the future. The title poem, in which crowell speaks to an aunt who passed away, poignantly asks, "if there's any such thing / as paradise . . . / better than the warmth / of your neck . . . / how close am i / to that context of space?" Her question acts as a provisional thesis statement for this collection, a poetic attempt to reveal, redress, and interpret those who came before her, especially in the absence of physical traces. Each poem imagines ways to access family members who have died and calls out to ancestors crowell never met.

In the process, crowell demonstrates capacious syntactical range, nimbly leaping from haibun to erasure poems, interviews to sonnets. She also invents forms she calls "grooves," which are structured as album tracklists. These techniques marry form with meaning, echoing the voices of lost loved ones in indelible verse. Rhapsodic, inventive, and ambitious, Cord Swell establishes crowell as one of the most creative and dynamic new voices in poetry.



Author: Brittny Ray Crowell
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 10/07/2025
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.30h x 6.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781324111153

About the Author
Crowell, Brittny Ray: - brittny ray crowell is an assistant professor of English at Clark Atlanta University, where she teaches courses in poetry and composition. She is a recipient of the Inprint Donald Barthelme Prize in Poetry and the Lucy Terry Prince Prize. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
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