Sparrow on the Rooftop

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Beschreibung

<p><b>'Exceptionally brave and urgent</b>... <b>Moves, shocks and inspires</b>' BERNARDINE EVARISTO<br><b>'A wonderful read from an arresting voice</b>' DIANA EVANS</p><p><b>Rachel Long's vivid new collection is a study of toxic love, crisis and recovery, at once moving and whip-smart, from one of our brightest stars in poetry.</b></p><p><i>'At first you eat less because you're happy, / so fricking happy, the way you are in high summer / when you just </i>can't <i>because of the sun.'</i></p><p><i>Sparrow on the Rooftop </i>tells a story of new love: the summer-like giddiness of it, the ferocity of obsession, and the stark hollowing of absence. Alongside this affair, and unleashed by its intensity, unfolds another story, half-buried, about our young narrator's uneasy relationship with her body: '<i>Black girls// don't get/ eating disorders./ That's a white girl/ thing</i>.'</p><p>Desire, indulgence, denial, and transformation are some of the themes that animate this engrossing, at times frighteningly intimate, narrative collection. With fierce wit and uncommon insight, <i>Sparrow </i>interrogates the self and other, and the experience of self as other. These remarkable, penetrating, headlong poems chart disorder and desire, break-up and breakdown, and the hard path towards recovery, confirming Rachel Long as one of the most gifted poets of her generation.</p><p><b>'Gruesome and intimate, alive to the rot, funny' </b>SABA SAMS<br><b>'Satire and play and unflinching honesty</b>' RAYMOND ANTROBUS</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781784746582

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

212 x 132 x 10 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2026

Verlag / Hersteller

Random House UK Ltd