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Cage of Lit Glass

Charles Kell

The debut poetry collection of Charles Kell, Cage of Lit Glass, engages themes of death, incarceration, and family through a range of physical, emotional, and philosophical spaces.

In startling images of beauty and violence, Kell creates a haunting world that mirrors our individual and cultural fears. Cage of Lit Glass follows multiple points of view, all haunted by various states of unease and struggle that follow them like specters as they navigate their world. Kell's poems form blurred narratives and playful experiments from our attempts to build lives from despair. A tense and insightful collection, these works will follow the reader long after the book is finished.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Autumn House Press
  • Publish Date: Sep 15th, 2019
  • Pages: 104
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.40in - 5.40in - 0.20in - 0.30lb
  • EAN: 9781938769399
  • Categories: American - GeneralSubjects & Themes - Family

About the Author

Kell, Charles: - Charles Kell is the author of Cage of Lit Glass, winner of the 2018 Autumn House Poetry Prize. His poetry and fiction have been published in the Brooklyn Rail, Laurel Review, Hobart, New Orleans Review, Saint Ann's Review, Kestrel, Columbia Journal, and elsewhere. He is assistant professor of English at the Community College of Rhode Island and editor of the Ocean State Review.

Praise for this book

"In the Cage of Lit Glass, Charles Kell presents an unreal world and yet, these confines are not an imaginary. The cages are also not stable . . . We learn that if you wish to read a poem, you may as well carve the lines on your wrist. By creating such poems, the reader is separated from their comfort zone. And this is a marvelous feat. After all, awareness is powerful poetic. So, join Charles Kell in his Cage of Lit Glass."--Kimiko Hahn, author of Brain Fever