Name: Pricks in the Tapestry by Jameson Fitzpatrick
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Pricks in the Tapestry by Jameson Fitzpatrick

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Pricks in the Tapestry by Jameson FitzpatrickThis book is a record of my thinking and feeling during my mid to late twenties. Like any record, it is incomplete and imperfect I do not always identify with the speakers of these poems, even as I recognize their speech (and sometimes, their desires) as my own. I think of this collection as a bildungsroman of sorts: the story of a young poet coming to know, belatedly and with difficulty, the insufficiencies of the self as a subject and the lyric as a

be selfless

and stag parties

journeying from her family’s history as “Afropioneers” in the American West to shimmering glimpses of transcendent

and records the hybrid sounds of love

Barbary Shore plays havoc with our certainties and delivers its effects with a force that is pure Mailer

and they remember past lush lives in New York City

Yet Skloot also remains attuned to the urgency of the present moment

exactly for this reason

and is studied and performed in classrooms and theatres around the world

she musters the courage to kill Kurtz

but it’s also the story of millions of others who had no choice but to leave home

These poems are a symphony within an unopened box