The Arrows That Choose Us
The Arrows That Choose Us by Marilyn Annucci is a poetry collection published by Press 53 in 2018, featuring 75 pages of contemplative verse in English. This work presents a series of poems characterized by quiet observation and vivid imagery, exploring themes of intimacy, mortality, and the intersection of technology and luck.
Readers will encounter Annucci’s precise language and unique metaphors, such as a crow that “opens his wing like a set of black cards” and a knife described as “a mute battleship gone down on its side.” The collection balances humor with moments of loneliness and disappointment, reflecting on how “the arrows that choose us” can awaken us to the complexities of life. This edition invites readers to engage with the nuanced observations and emotional depth found within Annucci’s work.
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In The Arrows That Choose Us, Marilyn Annucci’s poems of quiet observation startle with their precision: a curmudgeonly crow trapped in a yard “opens his wing like a set of black cards”; the knife at the bottom of a dishpan is “a mute battleship gone down on its side”; Houdini is “holding his breath at the bottom of your bathtub.” Metaphysical in scope, this collection offers meditations on intimacy and mortality, technology and luck. Annucci finds humor even in places of loneliness or disappointment, reminding us how “the arrows that choose us” never fail “to tear us awake.”
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