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Winner of the John Ridland Poetry Prize.

In Andrea Carter's powerful Figeater, "we follow the/road, the terrible invention// of hope" until we reach the place where desire stretches the limits of what a heart can endure. Like Jupiter's great storm, this collection is "a constant/ hurricane, grasping, expanding,/ feeling for a purchase, stability,/ a place to collapse, fall apart, re-/accumulate." What abundant, soulful, heartwork.

-Tomás Q. Morín

In Figeater, Andrea Carter shows herself to be a master of extended metaphor and the lyric. The book chronicles abuse, abandonment, betrayal-the men often seeing someone else, the mother as wicked queen-"I am a moving violation" says the speaker-trapped with "no one to release me from my glass coffin." There is emptiness and hunger here-"No one will know//the hunger of us." The central reveal is scattered like breadcrumbs throughout the book: "I looked more like/an adult even at ten, and my body//belonged to my stepfather." In a key poem, "The Welder," the speaker is likened to Hephaestus, metal worker to the gods-"the daughter is [...]/the conjoining joint, testament//between her mother/and the man her mother sends/her daughter to//in order to make him happy." Figeater is a blistering, deeply felt tribute to Carter's ability to open a coherent and difficult world with language both lush and sharp. It is beautifully wrought. 

-Donna Spruijt-Metz

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Zaradenie knihy Knihy po nemecky Belletristik Lyrik, Dramatik

• Celý názov: Figeater
• Autor: Andrea Carter
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Väzba: Brožovaná
• Počet strán: 92
• EAN: 9781957062259
• ISBN: 1957062258
• ID: 49865753
• Nakladateľ: Gunpowder Press
• Hmotnosť: 148 g
• Rozmery: 229 × 152 × 5 mm
• Dátum vydania: 10. October 2025

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