Four in Hand

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By Alicia Mountain

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Four in Hand by Alicia Mountain explores the intricate connections between humans and the natural world. Through poetic and thought-provoking narratives, the book investigates themes of ecology, identity, and belonging, offering a reflective discourse on how individuals interact with nature. It seamlessly blends scientific insight with personal reflection, creating a rich tapestry of understanding about our place in the universe.
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This book may appeal to you if you enjoy exploring themes of human connection and the environment through deeply evocative poetry. Alicia Mountain crafts beautifully introspective pieces that intertwine nature and personal reflection, offering a moving and thought-provoking reading experience.

Four in Hand

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Comprised of four heroic crowns of sonnets, Alicia Mountain's Four in Hand is both formal and experimental, ranging from lyric romantic and familial narratives to blank verses of reconfigured found text pulled from financial newsletter emails.

Language and white space equally captivate with their sparsity and abundance as Mountain pursues the implications of national political identity with intersectional awareness. These poems interrogate our collective complicity in late-stage capitalism, drone warfare, the election of Donald Trump, environmental degradation, mental health crises, and the dawn of Covid-19 through the lens of gay poetic lineage, regionalism, and familial kinships structures.

As in all lived experiences, treacheries and triumphs fade in and out of focus and intimacy, heartbreak, travel, eroticism, joy, and quotidian happenings offer character and momentum across non-linear narrative arcs. Through enthralling images, gripping storytelling, and world-building, Four in Hand carves out necessary space for lesbian gaze, speakership, and personhood.

From the back corner of a vast, sprawling, yet gorgeous landscape of thought, Mountain's poems beckon us inside.

Series: American Poets Continuum Series

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Four in Hand by Alicia Mountain is praised for its imaginative exploration of emotional and environmental themes with an intimate yet expansive approach. The book employs vivid and sensory language, presenting beauty alongside themes of devastation, and offers a musical quality to its complex and evocative narrative. Through its masterful sonnet crowns, it explores the repetition and insistence of global and personal issues without offering simple resolutions, urging readers to engage with its nuanced portrayal of resilience and transformation.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781950774869

Publisher: BOA Editions, Limited

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 18 May 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: BOA Editions, Limited

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 88

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Alicia Mountain Education & Reference Non-Fiction Science & Nature Series: American Poets Continuum Series

About the Author

Alicia Mountain's debut collection,High Ground Coward (Iowa), was selected by Brenda Shaughnessy to win the Iowa Poetry Prize. Her chapbook, Thin Fire (BOAAT Press), was selected by Natalie Diaz. Dr. Mountain was a Clemens Doctoral Fellow at the University of Denver and the 2020-21 Artist in Residence at the University of Central Oklahoma. Mountain serves on the Board of Directors for Foglifter Journal and is a Consulting Editor at the Kenyon Review. She is a lesbian poet, based in New York City where she teaches at Columbia University and in the Writer's Foundry MFA program at St. Joseph's College.