num_pages: 72
description: Sometimes a fact swings down like a hammer and we are changed. The fact of loss, the fact of desire, and all the wild, unruly facts of history hammer down and sparks fly up. This, then, is a collection of facts. In a rushing, rolling style, poems sweep to the edge of falling apart, take great delight in defying that dissolution, and come upon a thing redemptive and the fact of love. In a world that “doesn’t really care / whether we live or die,” Steve Scafidi writes, “tell it you do and why.” From the unthinkable to the quietly heroic, somehow we have emerged. Sparks from a Nine-Pound Hammer celebrates that fact most of all.
language: English
title: Sparks from a Nine-Pound Hammer: Poems
titlecomplete: Sparks from a Nine-Pound Hammer: Poems (Southern Messenger Poets)
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 96
publisher: LSU Press