Watchful - Softcover

Bendall, Molly

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1632430215 ISBN 13: 9781632430212

Publisher: Omnidawn, 2016

Synopsis

Witness to the late and sorrowful pact between predator and prey, spectator and species, Molly Bendall's fifth book beckons the reader into the enigma of animal relation. "What's left?" she asks. The answer is past remembering, attuned to extinction. Forsaking the names of creatures, Bendall returns like a sleepwalker to a painted habitat of swamps and savannahs, of captivity and display. At once playful and melancholy in its sifting of ritual discretion and shame, Watchful brings every sense, every measure, to bear on the blood mirror of the human.

About this title

About the Author:

MOLLY BENDALL is the author of four previous collections of poetry, After Estrangement, Dark Summer, Ariadne's Island, and Under the Quick. She also has co-authored with the poet Gail Wronsky Bling & Fringe from What Books. Her poems and trans- lations have appeared in many anthologies, including American Hybrid and Poems for the Millenium. She has won the Eunice Tietjens Prize from Poetry, The Lynda Hull Award from Denver Quarterly, and two Pushcart Prizes. Currently she teaches at the University of Southern California.

Review:

“Over the years Molly Bendall has been writing luminous and illuminating poetry. Bendall’s work is always full of a high-stakes daring, coupled with the joys of sonic intensity. Her exquisite new book, Watchful, takes us further, unveiling both the disquiet and the beauty of our contemporary moment through song. As she boldly writes: ‘I come here to teach my ear to adore, shape myself as orphan.’” (Peter Gizzi, author of In Defense Of Nothing: Selected Poems, 1987–2011)

About this edition

• Publisher: Omnidawn
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1632430215
• ISBN 13: 9781632430212
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 72