Overview
Georg Trakl is one of the most celebrated poets of the early twentieth century. Less is known about his sister, Grete: also gifted, also addicted to drugs, and dead by her own hand three years after Georgās overdose. But in Solve for Desireāselected by Srikanth Reddy as the winner of the 2017 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for PoetryāCaitlin Bailey summons Grete from the shadows. At once sensual and acidic, obsessive and bereft, the Grete of these poems is a fairy-tale sister leaving āmissives dropped around the city, crumbs / for your ghost.ā
Can one person be addicted to another? Can two souls be twinned, and where does that leave the physical? How do we solve for desire when the object we adore disappearsāand how does the poet solve and resolve the past, its wounds and its absences? āEach time I write your name,ā Bailey writes, āa key / turns somewhere in a lock.ā Like the āperfect red burstā of poppies and of blood, these poems are a blooming, keening exploration of desire between brother and sister, poet and subject, the living and the dead.
This book title, Solve for Desire (Poems), ISBN: 9781571314994, by Bailey Caitlin, published by Milkweed Editions (November 28, 2017) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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