Cry Back My Sea, Sarah Arvio
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Cry Back My Sea
48 Poems in 6 Waves

Author: Sarah Arvio

Narrator: Sarah Arvio

Unabridged: 1 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/10/2021


Synopsis

A breathtaking collection of love poems from one of our great contemporary poets—stunning odes of obsession, loss, and the desire for a renewed self

“I thought I had left behind the darkness / of the heart,” Arvio confesses in the poem “Small War.” The love Arvio traces in these pages is indeed a battle, one in which the best-laid plans are shattered. Rarely has a poet tackled intimate love with so much invention and bravery.
 
In poem after poem, we meet the troubling lover whose nearness and force undoes her. There are moments of reprieve: “my naked body and budding pleasure / in the weather of your presence. / Not whether your presence but how.” The voice is vulnerable, self-knowing, often funny; the poet seems to be writing these poems to save herself from a devastating passion. Her weapons are a cascade of brash, freely spoken lines and a powerful command of metaphor, wielded in a search for meaning and understanding.
 
These breathtaking love poems make the collection Arvio’s most universal to date.

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