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In her electrifying fourth collection, Jana Prikryl harnesses the power of King Lear to look back at...
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In her electrifying fourth collection, Jana Prikryl harnesses the power of King Lear to look back at her family story and see more clearly our own mad kings, our hunger for authority. Listening for Cordelia as a dissenter banished from home, Prikryl finds that outside her native tragedy the silent woman has more to say. The centuries and settings molt from the Bronze Age to Jacobean England to the Cold War to the digital now, as her voice pushes itself into evasive maneuvers, urgent digressions, bad jokes, worse puns, and desperate expressions of love, and she struggles to escape the roles written for her. What new language, what new reality--these poems ask--is available beyond the borders of any given role?
From "Insomnia at Anchor"
... the meter tells me who I was
the corridor I paced as Antony
Friends, best hour of school, can't teach the fates
they couldn't worry us, reading reassured
a book but carried out your feelings, ferried
away from home, amazing how stubbornly
we worried wrong, the fates will see you now
like rushes wetly cut from streams and tipped
in flame, or when that girl became a reed
is there a song that won't make use of her
Author: Jana Prikryl
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 11/03/2026
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781324130383
About the Author
Prikryl, Jana: - Jana Prikryl is the author of three previous collections, The After Party, No Matter, and Midwood. Her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Born in the former Czechoslovakia, Prikryl lives in Brooklyn with her son and is the executive editor at The New York Review of Books.
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