Mary Quade
Autore di Zoo World: Essays (Non/Fiction Collection Prize)
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Its tined fin-like forelegs
for diving, surfacing--land's
inconsiderable whale
And she looks at her own childhood without maudlin nostalgia but a gratitude for its "Small Hurts" as she gives homage to the rough playground of her youth in comparison with the too-safe plastic and rubber mulched present:
You allowed us all
to break our bones, to see beneath our blank
skin--
persecuted knees, ephemeral teeth, the sanguine world
of gravity..."
There is something of Maxine Kumin in Quade's work and something all her own."Local Extinctions" is a joy to read even as it squarely faces the mortality of the individual and the species.… (altro)