Arvio, Sarah: Cry Back My Sea: 48 Poems in 6 Waves
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Knopf, hardcover
Publication Date: August 10, 2021
Publisher Marketing:Stunning poems of obsession, loss, and the desire for a renewed self, from the award-winning poet and translator of Lorca.
I thought I had left behind the darkness / of the heart, Arvio confesses in the poem Small War. The love Arvio traces in these pages is indeed a battle, one in which the best-laid plans are shattered. Rarely has a poet tackled intimate love with so much invention and bravery. In poem after poem, we meet the troubling lover whose nearness and force undoes her. There are moments of reprieve: my naked body and budding pleasure / in the weather of your presence. / Not whether your presence but how. The voice is vulnerable, self-knowing, often funny; the poet seems to be writing these poems to save herself from a damaging passion. Her weapons are a cascade of gorgeous ten-syllable lines and a powerful command of metaphor, wielded in a search for meaning and understanding rather than in devastation. These breathtaking love poems make the collection Arvios most universal to date.
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