The Hatchet and the Hammer Book by Caitlin Scarano
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The Hatchet and the Hammer

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Poetry. THE HATCHET AND THE HAMMER is part long poem, part essay in fragments, about real and imagined violence. In this chapbook, the writer looks back at three intersecting traumas--the unraveling of a long-term relationship with a partner with a diagnosis of Harm OCD, the death of her father due to prolonged alcoholism, and a story she learns of how her grandfather once attacked her grandmother with a hammer. Here, the writer attempts to make meaning from trauma and interrogate her own role in these fractured relationships. The chapbook takes a layered, polyvocal approach by collaging lines from poets, medical research, and other found texts. At the heart of this project, driving it like an engine, is a central question--how do I know when I have the truth about myself?In a deeply felt and carefully braided mix of personal history, poetic reference, and psychological research, THE HATCHET AND THE HAMMER is an intensely lyrical examination of violence--violence as old as the hills, and violence as new as the pharmaceuticals taken to counteract it. The work here is fearless, disturbing, haunting, honest. And, ultimately, redemptive. Scarano is a poet worthy of our full attention.--Daryl Farmer'Doesn't sickness require a period of wellness / to be measured against?' Essential questions surrounding the body and sickness are the obsession of Caitlin Scarano's speaker in this book, which is part-prose, part-poem, and wholly concerned with what circumstances of life are survivable. In a book-length narrative, hybridity becomes a thing of the self, of the world, of relationships, of the body living with disease. Rife with research, these conflicts are further demonstrated by fractured language and image on each page. But, 'there is always a line: ' what survives and what doesn't. This book is a triumph of language and its uses. Of the ways experience can be translated. It pulls the reader into its grief chorus through the wonder of those living with sickness, through the conditions that make our lives (im)possible.--Chelsea Dingma


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781938900341
  • Publisher: Ricochet Editions
  • Publisher Imprint: Ricochet Editions
  • Height: 175 mm
  • No of Pages: 37
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Width: 124 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1938900340
  • Publisher Date: 03 Mar 2020
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 118 gr


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