Questions in Bed

Questions in Bed - Icehouse Poetry

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Publisher's Synopsis

Incisive and intensely felt, Stewart Cole's striking debut collection reminds us that we too live in an age of anxiety, disoriented by doubt, and up late, compelled to confront the unanswerable. Sirens draw us to the inevitable fact of human suffering, black-winged redbirds perch aloof above our daily commutes, sex denies and drives our hunger for fidelity, and the comet speaks before it strikes.

In an unabashed celebration of intellect and a visceral engagement with our shadowy impulses, Cole's voice veers between the playful and the grave, pillow-talk and eulogy. And despite the odds, love - private, public, and free of false sentiment - emerges cloaked in a wit and intelligence at once elusive and warm.

From the urbane and civil to the lustful and dark, the poems of Questions in Bed, in an impressive synthesis of content and contour, depict the heat-seeking of our driven days and insomniac nights.

Book information

ISBN: 9780864926845
Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
Imprint: Icehouse Poetry
Pub date:
Edition: Letter press edition
Language: English
Number of pages: 80
Weight: 144g
Height: 140mm
Width: 218mm
Spine width: 4mm