English language
Published 2022 by Nightwood Editions.
Hesitating Once to Feel Glory
by Maleea Acker
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Maleea Acker’s dauntless new poetry collection is crafted with emotion and bold style.
Any day now I shall be released to the Bangladesh runaway, its burnt out plane a little hulk from a different dimension,
a researcher of longing, no one selling Heineken from a cooler in its unlit aisles, no one with a line to God.
Acker’s poems hang on precipices of emotion. They cartwheel from sadness to glory, then break into blossoms in a drought-struck landscape of longing. These are poems filled with daring leaps and precise, deft metaphors. There is machinery, there are imaginaries; a dictator selects the musical soundtrack. The poems cajole and praise both the world and interior life with an erotic charge and enduring hope.
Maleea Acker’s dauntless new poetry collection is crafted with emotion and bold style.
Any day now I shall be released to the Bangladesh runaway, its burnt out plane a little hulk from a different dimension,
a researcher of longing, no one selling Heineken from a cooler in its unlit aisles, no one with a line to God.
Acker’s poems hang on precipices of emotion. They cartwheel from sadness to glory, then break into blossoms in a drought-struck landscape of longing. These are poems filled with daring leaps and precise, deft metaphors. There is machinery, there are imaginaries; a dictator selects the musical soundtrack. The poems cajole and praise both the world and interior life with an erotic charge and enduring hope.