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Priscilla Becker, whose first book of poems, Internal West, won The Paris Review Book Prize, has written an astonishingly precise second collection, Stories That Listen. These poems attempt to come to terms with absences personal and one speaker wonders if a former partner still uses her map which showed the world / before it broke up into separate / continents. Another, missing a departed friend, retraces her steps, took a tour of your former apartments. The recipient of a letter containing a fraction of an ounce of Chanel Mademoiselle attempts to understand the senders motives, tried to scrape together enough dust / to fill a bowl or roll a minuscule cigarette. / I thought perhaps that this was your intent. Stories That Listen offers a science of the human, a way to understand the world through watching closely. Becker deftly slows action downwe see fingers curl /around my coffee cupto find the remarkable, the noteworthy, in the everyday. Quirky, at times outright funny, always wise, Stories That Listen is a resonant, rewarding read.

Author

Becker, Priscilla, 1965-

Publisher

Tribeca: Four Way Books ; Lebanon, NH: Distributed by University Press of New England

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781935536055

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities