Four in Hand, Alicia Mountain
Four in Hand, Alicia Mountain
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Four in Hand

Author: Alicia Mountain

Narrator: Alicia Mountain

Unabridged: 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/04/2023


Synopsis

Comprised of four heroic crowns of sonnets, Alicia Mountain’s Four in Hand is both formal and experimental, ranging from lyric romantic and familial narratives to blank verses of reconfigured found text pulled from financial newsletter emails. Language and white space equally captivate with their sparsity and abundance as Mountain pursues the implications of national political identity with intersectional awareness. These poems interrogate our collective complicity in late-stage capitalism, drone warfare, the election of Donald Trump, environmental degradation, mental health crises, and the dawn of Covid-19 through the lens of gay poetic lineage, regionalism, and familial kinships structures. With one enthralling image after the other, Four in Hand builds a world that carves out necessary space for lesbian gaze, speakership, and personhood. From the back corner of a vast, sprawling, yet gorgeous landscape of thought, Mountain's poems beckon us inside.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Alyse on May 22, 2023

Who else but the brilliant Alicia Mountain could compose a heroic crown in blank verse using only language found in Merrill Lynch newsletters? Come for the sheer feat of Mountain’s poetics, stay for its gut-wrenching honesty and courage, with lines like “Somewhere inside me, there is a swarm/keeping......more

Goodreads review by Mairyn on October 30, 2024

One of my favorite reads of the year full stop. ABSOLUTELY brilliant. The first crown “Train Town Howl” has everything I could possibly want in a poem. It took me on a journey. So funny, so intimate, so precise! I love you Alicia Mountain!......more