Swallower

by Lyric Hunter

Swallower explores spaces in between lost and found, present and historic, public and private. Opening at the Gare de Lyon, a point of both arrival and departure, the poems move through and around Paris, the Cevennes, and Nantes. Along these routes, simple objects—textures, colors, shards of language—are encountered by a mind that frames them as both marginal and central, detritus and treasure. Acting as triggers to memory and thought, the minutiae of everyday life is built into the voice of a shifting and multiple other, an outsider who can only notate in fragments. These are poems of migration, of the stranger in a landscape which morphs as it is being traced. This is Lyric Hunter’s first chapbook of poems.

Genres: Poetry

32 pages, ebook

First published February 15, 2014