The Constitution
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Black Ocean
Published:1st May '14
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The debut full-length poetry collection from Brian Foley, The Constitution boldly disrupts and troubles the beliefs we take for granted about ourselves and the rights we hold as true. While investigating ideas of home, love, morality, and loss, the poems also reflect back upon themselves, offering “amendments,” that question and rethink the poems that precede them. Taken together, the poems of The Constitution reveal the instability and flux of the principles we use as the foundation of our selves.
“Brian Foley is the poet laureate of No Man’s Land and The Constitution is his bloodletting. Each poem casts a spare spell, spilling difficult medicine when it breaks “scrib- / bled” down the middle. He’s always breaking things, breaking them open, finding clarity in middle’s muddle, revealing how each word is necessary to “see it nerve.” He writes: “leave your / belongings / in your mouth / mine” and with each deep, stark cut the empty mouth becomes a house, built and filled. It is constituted. And hard work has its rewards. After all, “the middle
ISBN: 9781939568045
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 136g
68 pages