{"product_id":"seiferle-rebecca-wild-tongue","title":"Seiferle, Rebecca: Wild Tongue","description":"\u003cp\u003eCopper Canyon Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: September 01, 2007\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"With a bitter and withering irony and an eye for shocking beauty . . . Seiferle cuts straight to the emotionally honest kernel within family, spirit and myth.\"--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePoet Rebecca Seiferle once said that \"one should always read a poem as if it was a matter of life and death.\" Seiferle's fourth book of poems,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWild Tongue\u003c\/i\u003e, suggests a similar belief about\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ewriting\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003epoems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe tongue is both voice and body, and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWild Tongue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003erages against these global bits, bridles, and palliatives that attempt to calm and control. Combining shocking beauty and compelling directness, Seiferle counterbalances divorce and domestic violence with newfound love and cathartic wit. Her poems, like cave drawings, are inspired by urgency and concern, working into the cracks and contours of truth and wound. \"The human voice on the edge of extinction,\" she writes, \"and on that edge, everything wild, unspoken, vital and living, begins to speak out.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44537626066967,"sku":"9781556592621","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/41Lf3qlFckL._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1771028672","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/seiferle-rebecca-wild-tongue","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}