{"product_id":"9781556592621","title":"Wild Tongue","description":"\u003cp\u003e“With a bitter and withering irony and an eye for shocking beauty . . . Seiferle cuts straight to the emotionally honest kernel within family, spirit and myth.”— \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoet Rebecca Seiferle once said that “one should always read a poem as if it was a matter of life and death.” Seiferle’s fourth book of poems, \u003ci\u003eWild Tongue\u003c\/i\u003e , suggests a similar belief about \u003ci\u003ewriting\u003c\/i\u003e poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe tongue is both voice and body, and \u003ci\u003eWild Tongue\u003c\/i\u003e rages against these global bits, bridles, and palliatives that attempt to calm and control. Combining shocking beauty and compelling directness, Seiferle counterbalances divorce and domestic violence with newfound love and cathartic wit. Her poems, like cave drawings, are inspired by urgency and concern, working into the cracks and contours of truth and wound. “The human voice on the edge of extinction,” she writes, “and on that edge, everything wild, unspoken, vital and living, begins to speak out.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eFrom “The Too Long Married Woman”:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eSo, it came to this, she could barely bear\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eto be touched, though she was glad for that\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003emoment in the kitchen, tense with containers,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003escrapings of delicacies adhering, floating\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ein the sink, and the other woman who turned and walked toward\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eher, holding out her arms, extended\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003efrom her shoulders, those most human wings,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eto gather her up . . .\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eRebecca Seiferle\u003c\/b\u003e is the editor of the online journal \u003ci\u003eDrunken Boat\u003c\/i\u003e and has published six volumes of poetry and translation. She lives in Tucson, Arizona.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47060305576176,"sku":"9781556592621","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781556592621_p0.jpg?v=1763761473","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781556592621","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}