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Grand & Arsenal
Kerri Webster
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Belletristik / Lyrik, Dramatik
Beschreibung
From the intersection of public and private fear, Kerri Webster's award-winning collection speaks of anxiety and awe, vanishings and reappearances. A city both rises and falls; worlds are simultaneously spoken into being and torn down by words. "e;This is how time sounds,"e; Webster writes; this is the hum and click of bodies "e;desirous of believing we're all vehicle, every wet atom of us,"e; even as the saved seeds root in the fallen brickwork and the artifacts pile up: wisdom teeth, hummingbird skulls, plumb bobs, icons, antlers, incandescent bulbs.Grand & Arsenal begins Bless me I am not myself, but it is not long before the probability of being blessed is revealed to be as remote as the concept of a whole self. Thus begins the book s defining struggle, enacted by a multitude of voices which move from rush to stumble and back again meanwhile using all the tools we as a culture use to hold fear at arm s length.We hear a familiar irony, as in On a trip West, porn in the hotel room. I can take or leave it. The climax that puts me in the seats? World s end. We hear humor, as in I believed in . . . / . . . a certain apocalypse not so much foretold as crafted / by large-brained monkeys. We hear understatement, as in knowing it does not matter / in the grand she would say scheme, I would say / mishap . Most importantly, though, these poems allow for the fleeting triumph of an undefended voice, which appears often to emerge tentatively from a sort of exhausted collapse.
