Capture The Wendys Author Allison Benis White Available In EPub

Such a beautiful concept. Haunting in so many ways, "Perhaps all singing
aspires to silence I have nothing
left to say, to burn down
the house where the song began.
" One of the best collections I have read in a long time, The language, the surprise, the intimate and surreal, This is a book I will read and reread, Haunting, brilliant Gorgeous, brilliant. Stunningly conceived amp executed! ABW is amazing poems that are haunting and darkly illuminating like a blinding burst of light in a dark maze that only lets you see the the many corners that are in front of you.
It takes a very skilled poet to be 'poetical' without trying ABW is one such poet highest recommendation, "Maybe each word/ is a footprint filling up/ with snow, " An astounding collection, in which each page sings with precision and mystery, “Because it is easier to miss a stranger / with your mothers name,” Allison Benis White instead writes about five women named Wendy as a way

into the complex grief that still lingers after the death of a sixth Wendy, the authors longabsent mother.
A series of epistolary poems addressed to Wendy O, Williams becomes an occasion for the speaker to eulogize as well as reflect on the singers life and eventual suicide: “What kind of love is death, Im asking” In the section devoted to Wendy Torrance, the fictional wife from The Shining who was bludgeoned by her husband, the speaker muses on the inadequacy of language to resolve or even contain grief in the wake of trauma: “A book is a coffin.
Hoarsely. A white sheet draped over the cage of being, ” Ultimately, The Wendys is a book of silences and space in which tenderness and violence exist in exquisite tension.
“If to speak is to die,” White writes in “Ignis Fatuus,” “I will whisper, ”.