To Feed the Stone
To Feed the Stone In her audacious debut To Feed the Stone, Bronka Nowicka offers writing that is both timeless and timely. The poet reconfigures the dynamics between people and objects, cause and…
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To Feed the Stone
In her audacious debut To Feed the Stone, Bronka Nowicka offers writing that is both timeless and timely. The poet reconfigures the dynamics between people and objects, cause and effect, the body and the outside world, and the tenuous boundaries between death and life. Using the language of folk narrative, like Italo Calvino, Russell Edson and Jan Svankmajer before her, Nowicka's prose poems take us through the stark and disorienting world of a child--a world that excavates the border of appearances in a constant search for the essence of connection.
A butterfly has powder, a mole has a tailcoat. As Nowicka's child-narrator poignantly observes after discovering the body of a dead family member: "Her head was hanging over the armrest, her mouth open wide as if, with her whole body, she was taking the last photo of this world." An ant ground between fingers smells of vinegar.