Archway Editions
Plat
Product Code:
9781648230622
ISBN13:
9781648230622
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New
$14.95
Vivid and haunting elegy facing Mormonism, suicide, and gender in the American West. Lindsey Webb's Plat is a haunted, Western elegy, in which the author grapples with the suicide of her closest friend in context of their Mormon upbringing. Set against Joseph Smith's prophesied but failed heavenly city, the Plat of Zion, Webb questions the impulse to speculate about why a loved one chose to die. Webb's prose poems are unabashedly bizarre, leading the reader through scenes rendered as timelessly as Willa Cather's or Stephen Crane's with the moody language and temperament of Louise Glück or Sharon Olds. Plat is in its own league, brooding over gender, suicide, and memory using the language and iconography of Mormon temples, warped and chopped and made strange. Webb's perspective is heretofore unheard, but she taps into our universal anxieties. She poses personal grief within an ecstasy for language. Although the ecological and built structures feverishly crumble throughout Plat, Webb continues to wonder how dreams for our imagined worlds and selves may persevere.
| Author: Lindsey Webb |
| Publisher: Archway Editions |
| Publication Date: May 28, 2024 |
| Number of Pages: NA pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Paperback |
| ISBN-10: 1648230628 |
| ISBN-13: 9781648230622 |
Plat
$14.95
Vivid and haunting elegy facing Mormonism, suicide, and gender in the American West. Lindsey Webb's Plat is a haunted, Western elegy, in which the author grapples with the suicide of her closest friend in context of their Mormon upbringing. Set against Joseph Smith's prophesied but failed heavenly city, the Plat of Zion, Webb questions the impulse to speculate about why a loved one chose to die. Webb's prose poems are unabashedly bizarre, leading the reader through scenes rendered as timelessly as Willa Cather's or Stephen Crane's with the moody language and temperament of Louise Glück or Sharon Olds. Plat is in its own league, brooding over gender, suicide, and memory using the language and iconography of Mormon temples, warped and chopped and made strange. Webb's perspective is heretofore unheard, but she taps into our universal anxieties. She poses personal grief within an ecstasy for language. Although the ecological and built structures feverishly crumble throughout Plat, Webb continues to wonder how dreams for our imagined worlds and selves may persevere.
| Author: Lindsey Webb |
| Publisher: Archway Editions |
| Publication Date: May 28, 2024 |
| Number of Pages: NA pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Paperback |
| ISBN-10: 1648230628 |
| ISBN-13: 9781648230622 |
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