What small sound : poems / Francesca Bell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bell, Francesca, 1967- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (102 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Pasadena, CA : Red Hen Press, [2023]

Summary:

"Francesca Bell's second collection of poems, What Small Sound, interrogates what it means to be a mother in a country where there are five times as many guns as children; female in a country where a woman is raped every two minutes; and citizen of a world teeming with iniquities and peril. In poems rich in metaphor and music and unflinching in their gaze, Bell offers us an exacting view of the audiologist's booth and the locked ward as she grapples with the gradual loss of her own hearing and the mental illness spreading its dark wings over her family. This is a book of plentiful sorrows but also of small and sturdy comforts, a book that chronicles the private, lonely life of the body as well as its tender generosities. What Small Sound wrestles with some of the broadest, most complicated issues of our time and also with the most fundamental issue of all: love. How it shelters and anchors us. How it breaks us and, ultimately, how it pieces us back together"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half-Title Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Acknowledgments

Dedication

Contents

I

Jubilations

Learning to Love the World That Is

Two Stories

Making You Noise

Domestic Failings

Empty

Maybe Stillness Saves Us After All

Late Blooming

Instrument Left in Its Case

I Leave My Window Open Now to Hear Them

From the Beginning

Endometrial Biopsy

Going to the Sperm Bank

Right to Life

After

II

Proofs

Girlfriend of Las Vegas Gunman Says Her Fingerprints Would Likely Be on Ammo

Conduction

Burdens

Just Like All the Girls

Rape Kit Rape Kit

All We Know

Intention Tremor

Mistakes of One Kind

The Dentist Says It's from Some Earlier Damage

What Did I Know

Containment

Dusk, the Day I Drove My Child to the Partial Hospitalization Program

Menopause, Insomnia, News

Preferred Pronouns: We/Us/Ours

III

Sorrow Is Innate in the Human

What Small Sound

Like a Friend

Love Is a Song You Listen to Later

Swimming the Flambeau

Why I Don't Drink

Rhubarb

Sometimes My Face Flushes When I Make Love

How Like a God

Admissions

The Way Some People Laugh at Funerals

One Day, My Body

Lightning Coming Closer All the Time

Breaking Eggs

My Daughter Was Always the Resourceful One

Lessons

IV

Where We Are Most Tender

Taking Your Place

Late Mammogram

Scorpions

The Sound When the Held Note Ceases

Becoming

Tutor

Hush

Love in the Time of Covid-19

Turning a Corner

How Destruction Comes to Look Like Possibility

After the Hearing Test

Deciduous

Perimenopause

Manifest Image

Biographical Note

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781636280806

1636280803

OCLC:

1376194077