6/$30 Sit How You Want (poetry) by Robin Richardson paperback book

Sit How You Want (poetry) by Robin Richardson paperback book. Condition as pictured. 1 book for $9 2 books for $15 3 books for $20 4 books for $24 5 books for $27 6 books for $30 For discount, please bundle books together! 2019 Trillium Book Award winner 2019 ReLit Award for poetry winner Power and sex take centre stage in Robin Richardson’s formidable third collection, Sit How You Want. Plane crashes and automobile mishaps are the backdrop for female narrators who grapple with terror, anxiety, and powerlessness: “When I say I’m fine I mean the sky has opened / like an old wound under scurvy.” In their grim wit, sinister straight talk, and sometimes violent bawdiness, Richardson’s poems work as counter-charms against the lingering trauma of abusive relationships, both familial and romantic. The book embodies a belief in poetry as an instrument of change, a tool for transforming pain into exuberant verbal energy: “It is the thrill of ruination / makes us innovate.”