apocrifa: Poems by Amber Flame (English) Paperback Book

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apocrifa is a nongendered love story told in verse, the journey of a lover and their beloved finding each other, falling apart, and then creating their own way to love together.

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apocrifa imagines a love that sits comfortably at the crossroads of commitment and freedom. The developing intimacy between a lover and their beloved is propelled by a compendium of words for love, romance, sex, relationships, and affection that do not lend to direct translation in English. Serving as both titles and markers of the progression of time, these poetically defined words highlight the growing tension of one who claims "i cannot love you enough/to unlove the wide world" and yet is inextricably drawn to the offer of "a place of sustenance, rest, and my delight in your very bones." Heavily inspired by the metaphors and structures of Song of Songs (or Song of Solomon), from the Apocryphal books of the Bible, the characters speak to each other with contrapuntal call-and-response while letting us into their private thoughts through epistles, sestinas, odes, and other poetic forms.

Author Biography

Amber Flame is an interdisciplinary artist whose work garnered residencies with Hedgebrook, Vermont Studio Center, and more. Her first poetry collection, Ordinary Cruelty, was published through Write Bloody Press. Flame is a recipient of Seattle Office of Arts and Culture's CityArtist grant and served as Hugo House's 2017–2019 Writer-in-Residence for Poetry. Flame's work featured in Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort in the Time of COVID-19. She is Program Director for Hedgebrook, a residency for women-identified writers. Amber Flame is a queer Black dandy in Tacoma, Washington, who falls hard for a jumpsuit and some fresh kicks.

Review

"The expansive and formally inventive second collection from Flame (Ordinary Cruelty) considers the cornerstones of romance—doubt, surrender, grief, resolution—through poems about hunger, exploration, and forbidden fruit." —Publishers Weekly

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MULTI-TALENTED ARTIST: poet, singer, and playwright COURSE ADOPTION POTENTIAL for university courses African American studies and gender & sexuality studies ESTABLISHED LITERARY COMMUNITY MEMBER: Program director at Hedgebrook, a residency for women-identified writers

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"An elegant, loving, and lovely journey.Again and again, apocrifa lifts us up, drops us, then lifts us again.Finally setting us down exactly where we need to be." --Jacqueline Woodson, 2020 MacArthurFellow, National Ambassador for Young People's Literature 2018-2019, AstridLindgren Memorial Award Laureate 2018 "Enter this exquisitely delicatecollection of poems and experience the tender tensions that shudder and shakethe chords of love. Part love song, part dictionary of love, Amber Flame's apocrifa offers us a language for love's many faces and phases and allows us to bearwitness to the lovers' attempt to 'sink and surface' through love together;balancing the pull and tug of the desire to nest with one's beloved and theitch of having 'all the world still to taste.' In these poems we are invited tofeast on both the sweet glut of love and language and the agonies which canmake 'a whole desert in [our] teeth.'" --Brionne Janae, author of Blessed are the Peacemakers

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MULTI-TALENTED ARTIST: poet, singer, and playwright COURSE ADOPTION POTENTIAL for university courses African American studies and gender & sexuality studies ESTABLISHED LITERARY COMMUNITY MEMBER: Program director at Hedgebrook, a residency for women-identified writers

Details ISBN1636280633 Author Amber Flame Short Title Apocrifa Publisher Red Hen Press Language English Year 2023 ISBN-10 1636280633 ISBN-13 9781636280639 Subtitle Poems Pages 96 Format Paperback Imprint Red Hen Press Country of Publication United States Place of Publication Pasadena NZ Release Date 2023-06-29 US Release Date 2023-06-29 UK Release Date 2023-06-29 Publication Date 2023-06-29 DEWEY 811.6 Audience General AU Release Date 2023-09-20 Illustrations Illustrations We've got this

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