{"product_id":"an-arm-fixed-to-a-wing-poems-paperback-softback-9780807183731","title":"An Arm Fixed to a Wing; Poems (Paperback \/ softback) 9780807183731","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAn Arm Fixed to a Wing\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePoems\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eOlivia Clare Friedman (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780807183731\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 10 February 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e72 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 0.4 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Reading Olivia Clare Friedman's \u003ci\u003eAn Arm Fixed to a Wing\u003c\/i\u003e is like wading through a luscious dream. These poems seem to exist in that gauzy space between sleep and waking, where 'stars [look] liquid' and familiar rooms are filled with strangers—and where mystery reigns. Friedman's poems fold the ordinary realities of domestic life into the unknown of the self, of memory and creation.\" - Marianne Chan \"Friedman plays uncanny music on the taut, frayed thread of human connection, 'hearing in each note the \/ opposite silence.' Birth and death sit beside each other in these exquisite rooms, breathing the same air, listening to the same song of ache: our desire to remember and be remembered, our need to see and be seen.\" - Nick Lantz \"\u003ci\u003eAn Arm Fixed to a Wing\u003c\/i\u003e delights in discombobulation, makes of us 'a hand struck through [a] thought.' It contains some of the darkness of Mark Strand, the distance of Emily Dickinson. These radically archetypal poems, were it not for their cameras, could live in any century, refusing anachronism. They are supremely individual, supremely social. What a rare pleasure to absorb these searching intuitions that become, for a dazzling moment, our own.\" - Angela Ball\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eOlivia Clare Friedman's \u003ci\u003eAn Arm Fixed to a Wing \u003c\/i\u003eseeks out the spiritual elements that haunt the everyday, the divine wing fastened to an earthly arm. Elegies and poems of nostalgia appear alongside pieces celebrating the speaker's present moment, with the underlying knowledge that such moments slip past too easily. Several poems explore the theme of motherhood—the excitement and novelty, the routine and translucent sleeplessness. At the book's center sits a sequence of narrative pieces, titled \"Camera Poems,\" exploring experiences of isolation, hopefulness, and self-awareness. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e While the poems in \u003ci\u003eAn Arm Fixed to a Wing \u003c\/i\u003eacknowledge that loss is a constant, their tone is frequently wistful, evoking the desire to recover feelings of attentiveness and wonder toward one's surroundings, both the mundane and the extraordinary.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52551798128920,"sku":"9780807183731","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/an-arm-fixed-to-a-wing-poems-paperback-softback-9780807183731","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}