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Airport (BHP Chapbook Series)
by
Emily Kendal Frey (Goodreads Author)
In BHP’s fourth release, Airport, Emily Kendal Frey turns on the tropes of terminals and ticket desks, baggage claims and chain restaurants, letting them “shift and breathe.” Frey, with both a sense of loss and humor, crafts a lucid lyric cycle from the raw material of commuters, vacationers, and separated lovers. Airport is a work of brushing bodies that inhabit a distill...more
ebook, 38 pages
Published
March 9th 2009
by Blue Hour Press
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Amazing!
It's personal and universal at the same time.
Congrats Fremma on an amazing accomplishment!!!
It's personal and universal at the same time.
Congrats Fremma on an amazing accomplishment!!!
This book perfectly captures the airport experience, both good (the liberation of flight, leaving things behind) and bad (the sights, the sounds, the smells, the shitty people you are forced to encounter).
Mostly bad, though not negative bad - more like an honest appraisal of what is lacking in the human experience that only things like poetry can make up for.
This piece nicely suggests the generalized anxiety I experience whenever I fly:
The tarmac looks
back at me:
You think
you can die
in my shade...more
Mostly bad, though not negative bad - more like an honest appraisal of what is lacking in the human experience that only things like poetry can make up for.
This piece nicely suggests the generalized anxiety I experience whenever I fly:
The tarmac looks
back at me:
You think
you can die
in my shade...more
Frey could be a new master of the short line. And each word, each letter, counts. A lovely meditation on movement and stillness and the gray emotions between the two.
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EMILY KENDAL FREY is the author of The Grief Performance as well as several chapbooks and chapbook collaborations, including Airport (Blue Hour 2009), Frances (Poor Claudia 2010), and The New Planet (Mindmade Books 2010). She lives in Portland, Oregon, where she hosts The New Privacy.
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