Wound Is the Origin of Wonder (Paperback)

Paperback. Award-winning poet Maya C. Popa suggests that our restless desires are inseparable from our mortality in this pressing and precise collection. Rooting out profound meaning in language to wrench us from the moorings of the familiar and into the realm of the extraordinary, the volume asks, how do we articulate whats by definition inarticulable? Where does sight end and imagination begin?Lucid and musically rich, these poems sound an appeal to a dwindling natural world and summon moments from the lives of literary forbearersJohn Miltons visit to Galileo, a vase broken by Marcel Proustto unveil fresh wonder in the unlikely meetings of the past. Popa dramatizes the difficulties of loving a world that is at once rich with beauty and full of opportunities for grief, and reveals that the natural arc of wonder, from astonishment to reflection, more deeply connects us with our humanity. Lyrical, beautiful, and descriptive. Mandana Chaffa, BOMBIn ravishing, formally exploratory poems, Maya C. Popa wields the lyric like a reparative scalpel, evoking wonder and woundedness in equal measure. Meghan ORourke Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …