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A brutally honest epic of domestic proportions.
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Anna-Lynne Williams lives in Seattle, WA, where she records music under the name Lotte Kestner. She has collaborated with the Chemical Brothers, Delerium, Anomie Belle, Damien Jurado, and Sadistik, and previously sang in the bands Trespassers William and Ormonde. She is also a music journalist and poetry editor for the site Identity Theory. Blind Accidents is her third collection of poetry.
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"The incidents in this collection range from childhood experiences and family events through glimpses of steet life in Thatcher's Britain to deaths and premonitions of death, individual and universal, under the shadow of the nuclear threat. There is a group of fictional narratives, and a handful of the erotic, or, more properly, anti-erotic poems for which ... Adcock is well-known. There are also celebrations of places, reflections on art and language, and affectionate tributes to friends."--Back cover.
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Ellen Roberts Young's chapbook, Accidents, plumbs the world accident defines: phenomena, all that happens, the unforeseen course of events. In wry, spare, carefully crafted poems she poses oppositions of presence and absence, structure and chaos, constraints and possibility - "propriety's iron bar"--And "the unfathomable/ storm of adult relationships" and in doing so reveals the way we question both the world and our processes of knowing it. These poems are "constructed presences" which "frame an absence" that they manage to "fill" and "name," bringing to our experience a deep acceptance of the vagaries of inner and outer life and an oddly invigorating view of human indeterminacy and resilience. -- Sandra Kohler.