Into the Same Sound Twice by Zakia Carpenter-Hall
American poet Zakia Carpenter-Hall’s stunning debut Into the Same Sound Twice is a place where ‘the ordinary rules of motion’ don’t always apply. In the title poem, the narrator explains ‘As a child I mixed up the words musician/ and magician’; what ensues are words, bodies and environments that thrum with new music. Carpenter-Hall asks us, ‘Could I be the Instrument?’ A tour-de-force sequence, ‘The Earth-Eating Fire’, is a reflection on wildfires all over the world, from California to Australia. The poem considers how human beings impact the outside world and vice versa in a way that’s both hauntingly delicate and powerful. Captured in these poems – both intimate and vast – is the sense of how much we do not know, how much there still is to be achieved – but sometimes the body, rhythm and poetry itself can be a conduit.
Zakia Carpenter-Hall is an American writer, tutor and critic living in the UK. She was a winner of Poetry London’s inaugural mentoring scheme, a London Library Emerging Writer and a Jerwood Bursary Recipient. She was a Poet in Residence with The Scottish Poetry Library, in partnership with Africa in Motion and Obsidian Foundation, which resulted in her ecopoetry film 'Human Ecologies' (2021). Her poetry and reviews have been published in Poetry Wales, Poetry Review, Wild Court and Magma. She’s a PhD candidate at Royal Holloway, University of London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781781727058 |
| ISBN 10 | 1781727058 |
| Title | Into the Same Sound Twice |
| Author | Zakia Carpenter-Hall |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Poetry Wales Press |
| Year published | 2023-05-08 |
| Number of pages | 28 |
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