| Description |
102 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Jubilations -- Learning to Love the World That Is -- Two Stories -- Making You Noise -- Domestic Failings -- Empty -- Maybe Stillness Saves Us After All -- Late Blooming -- Instrument Left in Its Case -- I Leave My Window Open Now to Hear Them -- From the Beginning -- Endometrial Biopsy -- Going to the Sperm Bank -- Right to Life -- After -- Proofs -- Girlfriend of Las Vegas Gunman Says Her Fingerprints Would Likely Be on Ammo -- Conduction -- Burdens -- Just Like All the Girls -- Rape Kit Rape Kit -- All We Know -- Intention Tremor -- Mistakes of One Kind -- The Dentist Says It's from Some Earlier Damage -- What Did I Know -- Containment -- Dusk, the Day I Drove My Child to the Partial Hospitalization Program -- Menopause, Insomnia, News -- Preferred Pronouns: We/Us/Ours -- Sorrow Is Innate in the Human -- What Small Sound -- Like a Friend -- Love Is a Song You Listen to Later -- Swimming the Flambeau -- Why I Don't Drink -- Rhubarb -- Sometimes My Face Flushes When I Make Love -- How Like a God -- Admissions -- The Way Some People Laugh at Funerals -- One Day, My Body -- Lightning Coming Closer All the Time -- Breaking Eggs -- My Daughter Was Always the Resourceful One -- Lessons -- Where We Are Most Tender -- Taking Your Place -- Late Mammogram -- Scorpions -- The Sound When the Held Note Ceases -- Becoming -- Tutor -- Hush -- Love in the Time of Covid-19 -- Turning a Corner -- How Destruction Comes to Look Like Possibility -- After the Hearing Test -- Deciduous -- Perimenopause -- Manifest Image. |
| Summary |
"Francesca Bell's second collection of poems, What Small Sound, interrogates what it means to be a mother in a country where there are five times as many guns as children; female in a country where a woman is raped every two minutes; and citizen of a world teeming with iniquities and peril. In poems rich in metaphor and music and unflinching in their gaze, Bell offers us an exacting view of the audiologist's booth and the locked ward as she grapples with the gradual loss of her own hearing and the mental illness spreading its dark wings over her family. This is a book of plentiful sorrows but also of small and sturdy comforts, a book that chronicles the private, lonely life of the body as well as its tender generosities. What Small Sound wrestles with some of the broadest, most complicated issues of our time and also with the most fundamental issue of all: love. How it shelters and anchors us. How it breaks us and, ultimately, how it pieces us back together"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Hearing disorders -- Poetry.
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Motherhood -- United States -- Poetry.
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Mentally ill -- Poetry.
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People with disabilities -- Poetry.
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| Genre |
Poetry.
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| ISBN |
9781636280790 (hardcover) |
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9781636281018 (paperback) |
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