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You’re Called by the Same Sound by Alicia Wright
$17.95
YOU’RE CALLED BY THE SAME SOUND is a reckoning with family and regional history that interleaves private grief with public lament. COMING AUGUST 2025.
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Book Description
You’re Called by the Same Sound is a reckoning, a confrontation, and a visionary meditation that interleaves private grief with public lament. As they dredge a family archive in response to histories of devastation in northwest Georgia and the American South, Alicia Wright’s flinty lyrics inventory and seek to resist a legacy of despoliation. Wright extends the lineage of late Modernist poets like Lorine Niedecker and Susan Howe to warn us that history is a “murky churn” in which our collective reflection is crystal clear.
Praise
From deep knowledge of history and literature, Wright creates poetry that soars. To use her words, for which there are no substitutes, these poems conjure the “spectral” as they “channel” and “distill.” The subject matter of You’re Called by the Same Sound—eclogues, iron works, choral arrangements, and more—is ambitious and complex, but Wright resists showiness. Instead, she gracefully arranges material so that it coheres like the petals of a flower (to borrow, also, one of her poem’s beautiful images). It’s rare to read a debut that’s so sophisticated or encounter any collection that combines such substance, style, atmosphere, and true feeling. – ROSE McLARNEY
About the Author
Alicia Wright is originally from Rome, Georgia, and has received fellowships from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the University of Denver, where she is a Ph.D. candidate in English and Literary Arts. She is the editor of Annulet and publisher of Annulet Editions, and lives in Iowa City, where she works as Managing Editor of The Iowa Review.
Additional information
| Weight | .5 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 9 × 6 × .5 in |
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