Billiter's poems, spaced to stutter on the page, create a compelling yet dark world of small-town childhood that is disorienting and not all that bucolic. The town of Shinbone is an intense place: boys set bottles of cheap aftershave on fire, which segues with uncomfortable ease into grandmother's killing axe dispatching chickens and Soup's hand shredded in the corn dryer.
This collection pushes a recollected past to an extreme, replacing memory with myth and lacing narratives of disfigurement, accident, wildness, and murder with a strange enchantment. Childhood here is no idyll, but rather the dreamlike entryway to the desires, doubts, and dismay of adulthood.
| ISBN: | 9780820338811 |
| Publication date: | 1st April 2011 |
| Author: | William Billiter |
| Publisher: | University of Georgia Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 49 pages |
| Series: | The National Poetry Series |
| Genres: |
Poetry |
Billiter's poems, spaced to stutter on the page, create a compelling yet dark world of small-town childhood that is disorienting and not all that bucolic. The town of Shinbone is an intense place: boys set bottles of cheap aftershave on fire, which segues with uncomfortable ease into grandmother's killing axe dispatching chickens and Soup's hand shredded in the corn dryer.This collection pushes a recollected past to an extreme, replacing memory with myth and lacing narratives of disfigurement, accident, wildness, and murder with a strange enchantment.
Stutter features in the following genres: Poetry
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Stutter was written by William Billiter and published by University of Georgia Press
Stutter has 49 pages
Yes it is part of The National Poetry Series series
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