In Accelerated Silence: Poems by Matson, Brooke
In Accelerated Silence: Poems by Matson, Brooke

In Accelerated Silence: Poems

Finalist for the 2021 Housatonic Book Award in Poetry"The thin knife that severed your tumor," writes Brooke...
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Author: Brooke Matson
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In Accelerated Silence: Poems by Matson, Brooke

In Accelerated Silence: Poems

$36.25
In Accelerated Silence: Poems by Matson, Brooke

In Accelerated Silence: Poems

$36.25
Author: Brooke Matson
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Finalist for the 2021 Housatonic Book Award in Poetry

"The thin knife that severed your tumor," writes Brooke Matson in these poems, "it cleaves me still." What to do when a world is split--terribly, wholly--by grief? When the loss of the beloved undermines the most stable foundations, the most sacred spaces, of that world? What else but to interrogate the very fundamental principles themselves, all the knowns previously relied on: light, religion, physical matter, time?

Often borrowing voices and perspectives from its scientific subjects,&nbspIn Accelerated Silence investigates the multidimensional nature of grief and its blurring of boundaries--between what is present and what is absent, between what is real and imagined, between the promises of science and the mysteries of human knowing, and between the pain that never ends and the world that refuses to. The grieving and the seeking go on, Matson suggests, but there comes a day when we emerge, "now strong enough / to venture out of doors, thin // and swathed in a robe," only to find it has continued "full and flourishing and larger than before."

Sensual and devastating, In Accelerated Silence--selected by Mark Doty as winner of the Jake Adam York Prize--creates an unforgettable portrait of loss full of urgency and heartache and philosophical daring.



Author: Brooke Matson
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 02/11/2020
Pages: 88
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781571315151


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 03/01/2020 pg. 93
Foreword 02/26/2020
Booklist 02/15/2020 pg. 16

About the Author
Brooke Matson is the author of one previous collection of poems, The Moons. Her poems have most recently appeared in TAYO, Potomac Review, and Prairie Schooner, and have been selected for anthologies such as Towers & Dungeons and Railtown Almanac. She is also a book artist and a recipient of an Artist Trust Grant for Artist Projects and a Centrum residency. She currently resides in Spokane, Washington, where she is the executive director of Spark Central, a nonprofit dedicated to igniting creativity.
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