Lynn Emanuel Quotes

• Begin with loss and see
  how the world contradicts you,
  how the horizon implies that beyond it
  the water is not empty
  but full of ships
  all docking at another island.

  Lynn Emanuel

  Hope, Loss, Islands

  Lynn Emanuel (1979). “Oblique light”, Slow Loris Pr

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• I’m one uncontrollable hunger away from ruin.

  Lynn Emanuel

  Ruins, Hunger, Uncontrollable

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• Despite my lovely diction I am going to die.

  Lynn Emanuel

  Lovely, Diction, Despite

  Lynn Emanuel (2015). “The Nerve Of It: Poems New and Selected”, p.50, University of Pittsburgh Press

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• To what or whom does Lizzie Harris direct the imperative title of her startling first book, Stop Wanting? To the reader, the narrator, to desire itself, or to lack? This is a work of complexly, ambiguously layered narratives and identities. The opening poem asserts I want to say what happened / but am suspicious of stories. These lines become an ars poetica for the whole of this painful and exceptional collection in which the unspeakable is stubbornly confronted by a searing eloquence. This is a commanding debut.

  Lynn Emanuel

  Book, Desire, Identity

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