Black Bullets in the Sweet Jar (Paperback)

Alison Carr

ISBN 10: 1739173031 / ISBN 13: 9781739173036

Published by Smokestack Books, Middlesborough, 2023

About this Item

Paperback. Durham writer Alison Carr looks back to the childhood she lost when she was knocked down by a hit-and-run driver when she was eight years-old. Written with a beautiful melancholy, the poems are constructed around iterative images of lost childhood pleasures, of falling apples and seasonal change, connecting personal feelings of loss with larger narratives of the Fall mythical, anthropological and economic. A book of poems in which the writer looks back on the years of her childhood before she was almost killed by a hit-and-run driver. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Black Bullets in the Sweet Jar (Paperback)
• Publisher: Smokestack Books, Middlesborough
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1739173031
• ISBN 13: 9781739173036
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Durham writer Alison Carr looks back to the childhood she lost when she was knocked down by a hit-and-run driver when she was eight years-old. Written with a beautiful melancholy, the poems are constructed around iterative images of lost childhood pleasures, of falling apples and seasonal change, connecting personal feelings of loss with larger narratives of the Fall – mythical, anthropological and economic.