If all the world and love were young / Stephen Sexton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sexton, Stephen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--Irish authors.

English poetry.

Irish poetry--21st century.

Irish poetry.

Video games--Poetry.

Video games.

Physical Description:

118 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Winston-Salem, North Carolina : Wake Forest University Press, ©2023

Summary:

In Stephen Sexton's remarkable debut, the video games of his childhood are once again a way to slip through the looking glass; to be in two places at once; to be two people at once. In these poems about the death of his mother, this moving, otherworldly narrative takes us through the levels of Super Mario World, whose flowered landscapes bleed into our world, and ours, strange with loss, bleed into it. This moving, otherworldly narrative is a daring exploration of memory, grief and the necessity of the unreal.

Notes:

Poems

First North American edition. First published in Great Britain by Penguin Books in 2019.

Local Notes:

Color illustrated paper binding with author portrait; blue endpapers.

ISBN:

9781943667086 (pbk.)

194366708X (pbk.)

OCLC:

1433162666