The poems in Lullaby (with Exit Sign), explore the very nature of the elegy as rite, memorial, mechanism for healing, and raw utterance. Bar-Nadav asks, what is the shape of grief-its forms, silences, and sounds? The muscular music of her language and whip-sharp syntax join forces with startling imagery. Prose poems dominate the collection, held in place by the phantom scaffolding of lineated verse in which the poet listens for her father who "knocks on a little paper door."
- ISBN10 098336866X
- ISBN13 9780983368663
- Publish Date 11 April 2013
- Publish Status Transferred
- Publish Country US
- Publisher University Press of New England
- Imprint Saturnalia Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 88
- Language English