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Ricochet Script

by Alexandra Van De Kamp

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Next Page Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 0.6 cm

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Alexandra van de Kamp's Ricochet Script examines life as a plot slipping from our hands, veering in unexpected directions as years coalesce behind us. These poems bargain with time as a foreign, surreal, and elusive entity, where whole days can feel as if they were "written/in someone else's script." In vivid, at times playful musings, van de Kamp grapples with midlife, loss, and the strangeness of the body, while never forgetting the unrelenting beauty of being alive. These poems invoke a wide range of storylines, from Hitchcock's Lifeboat and spy thrillers to aging parents, to confront the unpredictable and ricocheting world.

Alexandra van de Kamp tells us "I want to make sense of abundance." In her beautifully wrought poems, we experience the sheer delight of all the sights, smells, and sounds of this world. Yet few poets are as deft at simultaneously evoking the precarity and consequent tenderness of existence. Van de Kamp's is a world made magical through art. She is canny, funny, filmic, but she can also stop your heart with the sudden apprehension of how time moves through us, "coaxing us / to bear something so much larger than ourselves."

--Sheila Black, co-editor of Beauty is a Verb, author of Iron Ardent

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  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Next Page Press

  • Published

    April 2022

  • Weight

    137g

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 0.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9781736672112

  • ISBN-10

    1736672118

  • Eden Code

    5658763

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