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Tabletop Anxieties & Sweet Decay

Tabletop Anxieties & Sweet Decay

Tony Brewer
5/5 ( ratings)
"Handling the visceral experience of living and loss with originality and keen awareness, poets Tim Heerdink and Tony Brewer distinguish themselves in their collaboration “Tabletop Anxieties & Sweet Decay.”

This is a collection of poems that gracefully scaffold the full range and various expressions of change and challenges. “I’m a walking art exhibit,” Heerdink writes, “making my path toward another stop.” “We…want to feel the fragile edges of each other & lift friable ink from pages with our own nervous oils,” Brewer adds.

The lines in Tabletop Anxieties & Sweet Decay” are finely wrought, but they also have the strength and age of iron. “The scissors are hungry/the toilet is sick/the refrigerator is an angry wet hen/ the house wheezes air/like a voice inside a skull,” writes Brewer in his poem, “The Scissors Are Hungry.” “I find myself listening to the growl/my gut makes when it remembers/food is all that matters when you’re out,” Heerdink confesses in “Take My Heart, Give Me a Fork.”

Heerdink and Brewer have distinct styles, and yet there is also a synergy in this poetic conversation that enables the writers to expand the reach of what they want to say. One haunting and memorable stanza from Heerdink: “Grief is a coin/where one side is love & the other pain.” An incisive admission from Brewer: “I often finish fights/that begin with my eyes.”

Life holds love and grief that is interchangeably both microscopic and unfathomable. It is a skillful poet who can communicate the full range—and raging intensity—of this—what it means to live, love, long for, and lose. In Tabletop Anxieties & Sweet Decay, Heerdink and Brewer manage to tell us about all of it in a style that is thrilling and unforgettable."

- Amy Alexander, author of “Neverland Is Always an Island” and “The Legend of the Kettle Daughter”
Language
English
Pages
35
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Roaring Junior Press
Release
October 02, 2021

Tabletop Anxieties & Sweet Decay

Tony Brewer
5/5 ( ratings)
"Handling the visceral experience of living and loss with originality and keen awareness, poets Tim Heerdink and Tony Brewer distinguish themselves in their collaboration “Tabletop Anxieties & Sweet Decay.”

This is a collection of poems that gracefully scaffold the full range and various expressions of change and challenges. “I’m a walking art exhibit,” Heerdink writes, “making my path toward another stop.” “We…want to feel the fragile edges of each other & lift friable ink from pages with our own nervous oils,” Brewer adds.

The lines in Tabletop Anxieties & Sweet Decay” are finely wrought, but they also have the strength and age of iron. “The scissors are hungry/the toilet is sick/the refrigerator is an angry wet hen/ the house wheezes air/like a voice inside a skull,” writes Brewer in his poem, “The Scissors Are Hungry.” “I find myself listening to the growl/my gut makes when it remembers/food is all that matters when you’re out,” Heerdink confesses in “Take My Heart, Give Me a Fork.”

Heerdink and Brewer have distinct styles, and yet there is also a synergy in this poetic conversation that enables the writers to expand the reach of what they want to say. One haunting and memorable stanza from Heerdink: “Grief is a coin/where one side is love & the other pain.” An incisive admission from Brewer: “I often finish fights/that begin with my eyes.”

Life holds love and grief that is interchangeably both microscopic and unfathomable. It is a skillful poet who can communicate the full range—and raging intensity—of this—what it means to live, love, long for, and lose. In Tabletop Anxieties & Sweet Decay, Heerdink and Brewer manage to tell us about all of it in a style that is thrilling and unforgettable."

- Amy Alexander, author of “Neverland Is Always an Island” and “The Legend of the Kettle Daughter”
Language
English
Pages
35
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Roaring Junior Press
Release
October 02, 2021

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