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The Words We Do Not Have - by Steve Brisendine (Paperback)

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  • In The Words We Do Not Have, Steve Brisendine brings experience into sharp focus-a road trip with his son, evenings spent playing pool, an abused childhood classmate-along with meditative explorations of life, death, aging, and faith.
  • Author(s): Steve Brisendine
  • 84 Pages
  • Poetry, American

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In The Words We Do Not Have, Steve Brisendine brings experience into sharp focus-a road trip with his son, evenings spent playing pool, an abused childhood classmate-along with meditative explorations of life, death, aging, and faith. The author employs as a title for each poem an unusual foreign word (along with its definition), a strategy that unifies the collection, while also yielding delightful and unexpected trajectories as the poems unfold. Brisendine's imaginative lexicon offers us a space where "a heart has/ spilled itself, where words bloomed/ into something past words."

-Janice Northerns, author of Some Electric Hum



"We have enough wind in Kansas," Steve Brisendine opens his excellent new book. "When you / walk into it, it pulls." Beginning with the language of wind, Brisbane reveals a dark world through a series of tongues. In "Mokita," a classmate is abused and silent, eventually dead. We learn the title's Kilivila meaning: "something everyone knows but no one talks about." Outlining a "slippery downhill way," these grave, sometimes minutial poems (as in "Qarba," the appearance of white hairs in a man's beard) highlight how life gives us "hope of reunion . . . but also the knowledge that such might never happen. Dark, global, nuanced in how it reveals a gritty world."


-Tyler Robert Sheldon, Editor-in-Chief of

MockingHeart Review and author of Consolation

Prize (Finishing Line Press, 2018)

Dimensions (Overall): 8.0 Inches (H) x 5.0 Inches (W) x .2 Inches (D)
Weight: .22 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 84
Genre: Poetry
Sub-Genre: American
Publisher: Spartan Press
Theme: General
Format: Paperback
Author: Steve Brisendine
Language: English
Street Date: April 2, 2021
TCIN: 1005414762
UPC: 9781952411526
Item Number (DPCI): 247-33-8774
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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