Book background
Book cover of Wound is the Origin of Wonder

Wound is the Origin of Wonder

Popa, Maya C.

16
<p><b><i>I can&rsquo;t undo all I have done to myself,<br>what I have let an appetite for love do to me.<br><br>I have wanted all the world, its beauties<br>and its injuries; some days,<br>I think that is punishment enough.</i></b><br><br><i>Wound is the Origin of Wonder</i> introduces UK readers to the work of a rapidly rising star in American poetry. Maya C. Popa is a naturally gifted poet, lucidly engaged with the most profound questions we face in our collective responsibilities and our relations with each other. She writes with love and wonder of a world poised at a perilous moment: &ldquo;My children, will they exist by the time / it&rsquo;s irreversible?&rdquo; she asks. &ldquo;Will they live / astonished at the thought of ice / not pulled from the mouth of a machine?&rdquo; Popa takes seriously the poet&rsquo;s duty to pay attention, to seek what Seamus Heaney called &ldquo;the images... adequate to our predicament&rdquo;. To read her poems is to pause again and again at the precision of imagery, breadth of ideas, and the warmth and generousness of her lyric voice.</p>
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Binding: Paperback
Publication date: 08 Jun 2023
Dimensions: 155 x 197 x 11 mm
ISBN: 9781035017386

Dear Customers,

Website orders and inquiries are processed from Monday to Friday.

Books listed on the website are not necessarily in stock at the bookshop and may need to be ordered.

Thank you for your understanding ❤️

Chers clients,

Les commandes de la librairie sont traitées du lundi au vendredi.

Les livres répertoriés sur le site ne sont pas forcément en stock à la librairie et peuvent être commandés.

Merci pour votre compréhension ❤️