Accidents After Happening

ECW Press,Canada

Accidents After HappeningPoems\nAuthor(s): Robert Priest\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Ecw Press, Canada\nImprint: Ecw Press\nISBN-13: 9781770418530, 978-1770418530\nSynopsis\nAccidents After Happening is for anyone who has a taste for immediate, meaningful poetry that sings, laments, and decries but also celebrates life in our modern world. For readers of Leonard Cohen, Sharon Olds, Gwendolyn MacEwan, Jacques Prevert, George Elliott Clark, Sylvia Plath, Warsan Shire, and Natalie Diaz. The accidents of Priest's collection are definitely not all 'happy.' They move through a full range of human emotions: dread, grief, anger, ecstasy, lust and empathy. Plus some magic levity. This is poetry you will want to recite aloud: lyrical love poems, sonnets, satires, ghazals, curses, and bitter invective. These are not snobby poems - they want and welcome readers who love euphony, who enjoy tasteful eroticism, who rage at injustice. People who grieve and gush - smart people who think critically'