Cage of Lit Glass

Cage of Lit Glass

by Charles Kell
Cage of Lit Glass

Cage of Lit Glass

by Charles Kell

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Overview

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. Boldly engaging with the absurdity, strain, and horrors of life, Kell’s poems expand upon the lineage of writers such as Kafka, Beckett, and Rimbaud.
 
Cage of Lit Glass follows multiple individuals and 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.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781938769399
Publisher: Autumn House Press
Publication date: 09/15/2019
Edition description: 1
Pages: 104
Sales rank: 1,132,189
Product dimensions: 8.30(w) x 5.40(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

1 Enclosures

In the Penal Colony 2

Rorschach Test 3

Rimbaud 4

Cenotaph 5

Mark's Death Mask 6

Bodybuilder 7

Empty Specter 8

Two Weeks Inside a Locked Attic 9

The Trial 10

In a Dark Room 11

House Arrest 12

Self-Portrait as Invisible Being 13

Janitor Hiding in a Locked Closet 14

Lincoln Town Car 15

Enclosures 17

Vetiver 18

Eyes Composed of Fine Particles That Drift Away 19

2 In a Field

Two Fields 24

Sciosophy 25

Welcome Snow 26

The Lost Boy 27

A Hunger Artist 34

Close Stranger 35

Two Weeks with Don Quixote 36

The Robber 37

Fluorescent Garbage Can 38

The Windows 39

Guilty 40

Lincoln Town Car 41

Self-Portrait as Cotard Delusion 43

Old Piano 44

Felon 45

3 Exculpate

Wild Turkey 48

Please Free My Dear Friend Jack 49

Nineteenth-Century American Literature 51

The Haruspicator 53

Pseudobulbar Affect 54

Novel 55

Threnody 56

Exculpate 57

Repeat Offender 58

Sarasota Affidavit 59

Felon 62

Father's Small Box 63

Monsieur Robber 64

In a Dark Room 65

Self-Portrait with Hands Made of Wire 66

4 False Requiem

The Carcasser 68

Bandit Hand 69

Vetiver 70

Daguerreotype 71

My Alcoholic Other 73

Wet Cigarette 74

Tower of Birds 75

A Cell the Shape of a Ring 76

Drowning in a Shallow Creek Bed 77

False Requiem 78

Lost Friend 79

Oblivion Letter 80

Reading in the Dark 82

Far Village 83

Acknowledgments 84

Notes 86

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