Slowly, As If
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Karen Press
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Slowly, As If
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Carcanet
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9781847776570
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1
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CHF 20.10
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Lyrik
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English
In Slowly, As If, Karen Press looks clear-eyed at what it means to live in a complex society, a fragile world. She celebrates the connectedness that sustains us in dance, in love, with the natural world, in cities where strangers seem happy / to let you be and sees it betrayed by our unreflecting complicity in poverty and violence. The death of a child who barely scratched the air of the country resonates in her tender, devastating account: When a child dies, who is responsible? Slowly, As If asks hard questions with grace and wit, balancing the particular and the universal. Being told / youre made of stardust / is not helpful / as you sit holding a parking ticket, but it is, none the less, a truth.
