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The Safety of Edges

Name: The Safety of Edges
Brand: Marrowstone Press
SKU: 9780578438351
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Contributors:

Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma

Publisher:

Marrowstone Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Poetry

Book Subcategory:

American, LGBTQ+

Book Topic:

Asian American & Pacific Islander

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Release Date:

2019-02-14

ISBN 13:

9780578438351

Weight:

0.3 lbs

Size:

9.00 x 6.00 x 0.21 inches

Pages:

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The Safety of Edges ponders liminal times and spaces, tracing the borders between now and then, here and there, childhood and the grown poet. The edge of anything is both a limit and a possibility, an encounter either safe or risky. Pruiksma's poems seek what it is one awakens to in the half light between darkness and dawn, an emptiness that is not empty, a "saying in the silence," "a song we can't see," or whatever in movement might remain still. Pondering a world waiting to be whole, they return repeatedly to home. Theirs is a quiet voice of the hints that the past, like the things that inhabit it, emanates, of evanescences, of questioning and questing, of the mystery of ordinary moments: playing cards, drawing, opening a door, building sheds, seeing neighbors. Not only doors or walls, not only voices, all things leave traces. There is nothing "to dull the emptying darkness beyond even the darkness I could see," Pruiksma writes in a poem that appears early in his book. Yet he finds, near the end of it, "a darkness not dark, an emptiness not empty." The Safety of Edges is a work of a compassionate discreteness, a generous simplicity, in which the hours of life are not lost but found, sometimes, "all of it here in our hands."

Peter Weltner, author of The Light of the Sun Become Sea and Unbecoming Time

About the Author
Pruiksma, Thomas Hitoshi: - Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma is an author, poet, translator, teacher, magician, musician, and lover of life. He was born in Seattle, Washington, and has lived and worked in Tamil Nadu, India, and Oaxaca, Mexico. His books include Give, Eat, and Live: Poems of Avvaiyar and Body and Earth: Notes from a Conversation (written with the artist C.F. John). He makes his home on Vashon Island, Washington, with his husband, David Mielke. thomaspruiksma.com

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