{"id":3675,"date":"2019-04-22T18:00:15","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T22:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/?post_type=product&#038;p=3675"},"modified":"2023-05-23T12:20:26","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T16:20:26","slug":"quite-apart","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/product\/quite-apart\/","title":{"rendered":"Quite Apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Quite Apart<\/em> asks, &#8220;what about after survival?&#8221; in a chronicle of attempts to have a heart in a rough world. Haunted by work and its wasted hours, the book offers a glimpse of self-rendered as subtext beneath the sheen of productivity. Inventive formal poems provide a kind of alibi, mirroring the inflexibility of the environment\u2014driving through mountains, bleeding in alleys, losing keys in a bar parking lot\u2014to allow some emotion to pass through, tenderness intact.<\/p>\n<p>The action among forms of address moves across the sections from direct to readerly, to more distant, back to the last\/lost sequence, and ultimately into an intimate, direct address, which builds up a reserve of trust adequate to collapse the distance of a cool operator. Mediated by grammatical invention, the collection enacts the making of an authentic place and self, reckoning with difficult truths (failures, omissions) to arrive at a state of peace having weathered some storms. It returns to a core and singular perspective, a knowing eye, that captures absurdity and tragedy, the absurdity of tragedy, to find\u2014beyond vigilance\u2014a balance between acceptance and bucking, which is perhaps another name for love.<\/p>\n<h3>Reviews &amp; Interviews<\/h3>\n<p>Poetry Project- <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryproject.org\/publications\/newsletter\/262-fall-2020\/quite-apart-by-krystal-languell-the-university-of-akron-press-2019\">https:\/\/www.poetryproject.org\/publications\/newsletter\/262-fall-2020\/quite-apart-by-krystal-languell-the-university-of-akron-press-2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Kenyon Review- <a href=\"https:\/\/kenyonreview.org\/2020\/04\/poetry-today-9-relevance\/\">https:\/\/kenyonreview.org\/2020\/04\/poetry-today-9-relevance\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>About the author<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"more\"><strong>Krystal Languell<\/strong>\u00a0lives in Chicago, where she works for the Poetry Foundation. Her previous books are\u00a0<em>Call the Catastrophists\u00a0<\/em>(BlazeVox, 2011) and\u00a0<em>Gray Market<\/em>\u00a0(1913 Press, 2016). She has also published six chapbooks, including\u00a0<em>Be a Dead Girl<\/em>\u00a0(Argos Books, 2014) and\u00a0<em>Archive Theft<\/em>, a collection of interviews, (Essay Press, 2015). A NYSCA\/NYFA 2017 Artist Fellowship Finalist in Poetry, she previously completed a 2014-15 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council workspace residency and a 2013-14 Poetry Project Emerge-Surface-Be fellowship. Since 2010, she has helped coordinate the activities of Belladonna* Collaborative, while publishing the feminist poetry journal <em>Bone Bouquet<\/em>. She was an adjunct in New York City for seven years.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h3>by Krystal Languell<\/h3>\n<p>Pages: 90<\/p>\n<p>Size: 6 x 9<\/p>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s Choice<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3679,"template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[83887],"product_tag":[97659,98095,211],"class_list":{"0":"post-3675","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-akron-series-in-poetry","7":"product_tag-affordable-learning-initiative","8":"product_tag-feminism","9":"product_tag-poetry","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"shipping-taxable","14":"product-type-simple"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/3675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=3675"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=3675"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=3675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}