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Cracker Sonnets Paperback – July 5, 2016

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CRACKER SONNETS amalgamates the world we know (and the language we use to describe it) with the world we sense but can't quite grasp. Thus we're treated to "Granny's fried-pie," at the same time we're transported to a "moment in the kitchen, / brilliant with vermilion." Amy Wright's achievement with these brilliant poems is to "rejigger" our minds so that we can see our lives anew--with wit, truth and forgiveness--and so that we can catch glimpses of "that realm which surpasseth understanding."-David Huddle, author of BLACKSNAKE AT THE FAMILY REUNION and DREAM SENDERReaders who love wit will delight in this handbook of pop-culture Americana in verse, where each poem is more daring than the next. Most of these verses are wildly funny. Who taught us that we weren't supposed to enjoy poetry? Wright's poems un-teach dullness, crackle in the mouth like pop rocks. We readers experience the guilty pleasure of watching Wright's neighbors be themselves in all their particularity and odd, naked glory. Leda Burk, for example, "saves pajamas for hospital stays." And nature is welcome, too, to play in this verbal backwoods fest, the book offering "a long love / doing with the sea what sex does, / antennae diddling the floor." We shouldn't be watching, but of course, like Amy Wright, we're living this, too, through expertly crafted language. We become trespassers at the windows of the double-wide, but soon we forget ourselves and frolic in verbal play.-Marilyn Kallet, author of 17 books, including THE LOVE THAT MOVES ME
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Cracker Sonnets amalgamatesthe world we know (and the language we use to describe it) with the world wesense but can't quite grasp. Thus we're treated to "Granny'sfried-pie," at the same time we're transported to a "moment in the kitchen, /brilliant with vermilion." Amy Wright's achievement with these brilliantpoems is to "rejigger" our minds so that we can see our lives anew--with wit,truth and forgiveness--and so that we can catch glimpses of "thatrealm which surpasseth understanding."

--DavidHuddle, author of
Blacksnake at the Family Reunionand Dream Sender

Readers wholove wit will delight in this handbook of pop-culture Americana in verse, whereeach poem is more daring than the next. Most of these verses are wildly funny.Who taught us that we weren't supposed to enjoy poetry? Wright's poems un-teachdullness, crackle in the mouth like pop rocks. We readers experience the guiltypleasure of watching Wright's neighbors be themselves in all theirparticularity and odd, naked glory. Leda Burk, for example, "saves pajamas forhospital stays." And nature is welcome, too, to play in this verbal backwoodsfest, the book offering "a long love / doing with the sea what sex does, /antennae diddling the floor." We shouldn't be watching, but of course, like AmyWright, we're living this, too, through expertly crafted language. We becometrespassers at the windows of the double-wide, but soon we forget ourselves andfrolic in verbal play.

--Marilyn Kallet, author of 17 books, including
The Love That Moves Me


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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Brick Road Poetry Press (July 5, 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 112 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0989872483
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0989872485
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.28 x 9 inches
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Amy Wright is the current Wayne G. Basler Chair of Excellence at East Tennessee State University. Her nonfiction debut, Paper Concert: A Conversation in the Round, published in 2021 with Sarabande Books. She has also authored three poetry books, six chapbooks, and received two Peter Taylor Fellowships to the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, an Individual Artist Grant from the Tennessee Arts Commission, and a fellowship to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

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