Debut author Gordon, a lecturer in English at King’s College London who was officially authorized by Carter’s estate, uses a wealth of primary sources to trace the life and career of a daring, quirky, and preeminent writer of the late 20th century. But it’s her rich imagery that stands out most: “That one has a cave for a face/ blank, unlit, and fallen in./ Back wherever she began/ somebody clapped his hands/ and the fire went out./ But, somehow, she continued to burn.” Brown’s humbling and heartbreaking poems restore dignity to lives sacrificed in the name of perfection.Įdmund Gordon. She also considers the perspective of the institution’s employees, conveying both their ignorance and fear: “do the children of God really lose// their eyes in the backs of their heads,/ and swallow their own tongues in church?” Her use of repetition recreates the hypnotic feeling of routine, giving weight to the lines that break the repetition and simulate fleeting moments of lucidity, certainty, and memory. “Imagine you are/ an animal in your/ own throat,” Brown writes. She epitomizes the feelings of the colony’s victims with unadorned, concise language. Brown lives with cerebral palsy and grew up near the facility, biographical facts that imbue her poems with an unmatched intimacy. The spirit of the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded, one of many American eugenics facilities constructed in the early 20th century, looms over Brown’s harrowing debut, winner of the 2016 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry.
On the way to a nearby relative’s house, she stumbles upon the “Great Leader” himself, a man whose “pale golden clothes seemed to shed a soft veil of mist.” Just as he is graciously giving her a ride, her granddaughter suffers a broken leg back at the station when she’s “buried in a tide of humanity.” Oh escapes a provincial train station that has been locked down for 32 hours because Kim Il-Sung is traveling in the area. Lacking proper documentation, he is forced into a truck, like a pig “being sent to the slaughterhouse.” A similar arc is traced throughout Bandi’s collection, but the most cutting story is “Pandemonium.” A frustrated Mrs. A Pyongyang housewife is accused of attempting to communicate with spies for closing her drapes in “City of Specters.” In “So Near, Yet So Far,” a man finds his village unreachable when he illegally journeys to see his dying mother. With these uncompromising stories, the pseudonymous Bandi gives a rare glimpse of life in the “truly fathomless darkness” of North Korea. I'd rather that anyways then get my shit stolen off my porch.Bandi, trans. I can't remember if they stated that or not but I'm sure they did. I had to sign for the package which I didn't know before so I did have to go pick it up at the post office. Good customer service, quick shipping (even though they state up to 2 weeks shipping time), and quality parts/fitment. The kit included the G26 frame like requested. Looking at pictures on their website, I assumed I would get something not as "perfect" but they literally look just like the pictures. I got the Cerakoted "sniper grey" Agent slide and black nitride barrel. Everything came as described, and the slide/barrel have been perfect. My order shipped 11/15 and arrived on 11/19. They responded quickly and let me know that was fine. I already had a G19 frame/LPK so I emailed them and asked if I could get a G26 frame instead for a future build.
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