Inevitable Wreckage (Paperback)

Amber Decker

ISBN 10: 1517658322 / ISBN 13: 9781517658328

Published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

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Paperback. Amber Decker's Inevitable Wreckage shows up to a knife fight with a flamethrower. The speaker in one poem says, "I am afraid to write this poem. I / am afraid to not write this poem." This is a book of necessary truths, "that a lover could kill the good in you / with a knife made of silence," that a violent thunderstorm "leaves behind a sky as blue / and seamless as an unbroken robin's egg" that, "to ask out loud / for love / does not mean you / are broken." Decker is our Sylvia Plath, our Anne Sexton. We should all be reading every single word she writes. Shaindel Beers, author of A Brief History of Time and The Children's War and Other Poems This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Inevitable Wreckage (Paperback)
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1517658322
• ISBN 13: 9781517658328
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Amber Decker’s Inevitable Wreckage shows up to a knife fight with a flamethrower. The speaker in one poem says, “I am afraid to write this poem. I / am afraid to not write this poem.” This is a book of necessary truths, “that a lover could kill the good in you / with a knife made of silence,” that a violent thunderstorm “leaves behind a sky as blue / and seamless as an unbroken robin’s egg” that, “to ask out loud / for love / does not mean you / are broken.” Decker is our Sylvia Plath, our Anne Sexton. We should all be reading every single word she writes. ~Shaindel Beers, author of A Brief History of Time and The Children’s War and Other Poems

About the Author

Amber Decker grew up wild in the mountains of West Virginia. She was the recipient of Cultural Weekly's 2015 Jack Grapes Poetry Prize, and her work has been included in the groundbreaking literary e-zine, Exquisite Corpse, as well as other hip venues for alternative writing: Zygote In My Coffee, Phantom Kangaroo, decomP, Red Fez, and Black Heart Magazine, to name a few. Amber is a lover of horses, comic books, horror culture, good wine, Henry Rollins, tattoos, and rock and roll. She is the author of a chapbook, True North (Maverick Duck Press, 2013), and three previous full-length collections of poetry: Sweet Relish (Grundle Ink, 2002), Lost Girls (Wasteland Press, 2010), and The Girl Who Left You (Six Ft Swells Press, 2014). One day she will rule the world. Quietly. From the comfort of her bedroom.