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Intimacies, Received

Taneum Bambrick

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English
Copper Canyon Press,U.S.
10 November 2022
Intimacies, Received signals agency, as trauma is held to the light and finally named.

In this astonishing second collection by T Bambrick, violence hides in the glint of the carving knife-every intimacy a shadow, every memory a maze to navigate. Set primarily in rural Southern Spain, Intimacies, Received moves through streets and fields, households and years, following a survivor of sexual assault as she painstakingly reassembles a narrative of self. A brilliant storyteller, Bambrick builds through palimpsest-layering vivid imagery to recall embodiment and dissociation, illness and isolation, queer female sexuality amidst acts of misogyny-utilizing varied forms including ekphrasis, persona, and a lyric essay. Ultimately, Intimacies, Received signals agency, as trauma is held to the light and finally named.
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Imprint:   Copper Canyon Press,U.S.
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 228mm,  Width: 152mm, 
ISBN:   9781556596315
ISBN 10:   1556596316
Pages:   80
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

T Bambrickand a Dornsife Fellow in Creative Writing and Literature in the PhD program at USC.

Reviews for Intimacies, Received

[Bambrick is] entirely committed to illuminating the intricacy of human nature. -The Rumpus Vantage is a work of art which also functions as a call, as if from under the ground, a cry from water and air. -Sharon Olds, from the introduction Read this book for its quotidian beauty. -RHINO Vantage is stunning, a true feat of language. -The Adroit Journal Within a puzzle of forms...it's the pitch and precision of detail in Bambrick's prose poems that glean tenderness. -High Country News [Bambrick relies] on the belief that love can exist, intensely and profoundly, within a process of damage and decay. -Poetry Northwest Taneum Bambrick sees, really sees, our America: blood on a baseball hat, purposeless dams, a wooden corn nut latched to a silver chain. Her clarity constantly surprises...It's such a rigorous vision, one that acknowledges even the violence of space, the violence of sounds, the violence that 'commodities its own impact.' -Kaveh Akbar


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