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Stutter|William Billiter

Stutter : Poems

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Overview

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.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780820338811
  • ISBN-10: 0820338818
  • Publisher: University of Georgia Press
  • Publish Date: April 2011
  • Dimensions: 8.54 x 5.57 x 0.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.23 pounds
  • Page Count: 72

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