Predictive Text

Crystal Warren

Description

In a series of tender, bite-sized poems on being a writer, loneliness, faith, patriarchy, climate change, grief, and more, Crystal Warren offers up an ode to the every day. With Warren’s signature light touch, Predictive Text is sensitive, unaffected, a relief from the brash, unrelenting tumult of twenty-first century life, while tethered to deeper truths.

Sujets

• Littérature Africaine
• Littérature Africaine

Informations

• Publié par: Modjaji Books
• Date de parution: 05 mars 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781928215837
• Langue: English

Extrait

Crystal Warren has distilled the art of poetry to its rarefied essence. Her words are simple and immediately accessible, but reward multiple re-readings and long scrutiny. She contemplates the divine with the same rapt attention that she gives to the vicissitudes of children. The fear that runs like a dark thread through this collection is the dread of being silenced or unheard - a poet s fear of having her voice taken away. Predictive Text ensures that this fear is moot, because Warren s words will certainly live on. - Fiona Snyckers

Published in 2019 by Modjaji Books
Cape Town, South Africa
www.modjajibooks.co.za
Crystal Warren
Crystal Warren has asserted her right to be identified as the author of this work.
All rights reserved.
No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, mechanical or electronic, including photocopying or recording, or be stored in any information storage or retrieval system without permission from the publisher.
Edited by Arja Salafranca
Cover text and artwork by Carla Kreuser
Book layout by Andy Thesen
Set in Legacy
ISBN print: 978-1-928215-82-0
ISBN e-book: 978-1-928215-83-7
In memory of Clive Newman, whose death inspired the title poem, and Ray Warren, who died the week before the collection was accepted.
Contents
Breaking Silence
Rituals
And it was good
Biblios
Breaking silence
Susurration
In quarantine
Shout
Words flow
Fragile Fairy Tales
Ashes
The dream of the Minotaur
Foolish mermaid
The ocean in my eyes
Fragile fairy tales
Waiting for Harry
Olive Schreiner
Patriarchy 101
Predictive Text
Caller ID
Predictive text
Ash Wednesday
Every April
Long Distance
Elevation
Travis on his first Christmas
Epiphany
Another Tarzan story
Long distance
Home baked
Not Another Love Poem
Falling
Now and again
Solo
Reflections
Not another love poem
On the radio
In the cards
Almost touching
Speechless
Steps
Tracings
Without you
Compassion Fatigue
Ghost writing
Darkness rising
Compassion fatigue
Mother Nature raises her voice
No awakening
Black Twilight
Black twilight
Darkness visible
This endless night
Shadow dance
Sinking
Swept away
Vertigo
Toothless
Incandescent
The chocolate cure
Spilt
Petrichor