This is a Brand New book in excellent condition. - Format: Paperback
- Author: Michele Parker Randall
- ISBN10: 1646624009
- ISBN13: 9781646624003
Theres a rope between two burning towers. One tower burns anxiously. The other tower the left side of the brain burns orderly. Randall is dancing on that rope. It is the motion-a footfall, a locomotive blowing hard, a wave-that keeps her from falling. An ecstasy is a song to motion, to ex stasis, and Randall belts it true enough to pop the deepest bass string on your Fender Squier guitar.
-Barrett Warner, Why Is It So Hard to Kill You?
These powerful poems erode our physical boundaries leaving us to explore mental illness as a patient and as a caregiver alternatively. With ferocity yet in a ceremony of revelation, Michele Parker Randalls A Future Unmapable artfully discloses the unfathomable struggle of helping a beloved come back from the brink. Honest and courageous, each poem is a study of the much-needed conversation of what it is like to live with and recover from such a destabilizing experience.
-Didi Jackson, Moon Jar
In A Future Unmappable, Michele Parker Randall explores the nakedness of mental uncertainty: What is real? what is not? when 'unable to tell the dream-state from the wake-state / Try to free someone from inside a balloon.' Muted tension screams in the torque of Randalls lines: 'coiledspring / a snake' 'between the wardscape / walls' 'how many worlds we / fit in one day.' These panoptic poems offer a view from the in-between lest any of us be too sure.
-Tanya Grae, Undoll
