Name: Wounds Fragments Derelict
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Wounds Fragments Derelict

APR. 2019

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Author: Carlos Gabriel Kelly Introduction: Sean Frederick Forbes Print Edition: ISBN: 978-1-940939-92-6 Product Details: 6.5 x 6.5; 132 pp. eBook Edition: ISBN: 978-1-940939-93-3 LCCN: 2018951797 SKU: WFD042019 Category: Poetry Tag: love poems

Meet The Author

Carlos Gabriel Kelly

This 2LP author has only one title with 2Leaf Press.

WOUNDS FRAGMENTS DERELICT is Carlos Gabriel Kelly’s debut poetry collection. It is a love narrative, a novella consisting of fragments of poetry that express the torment of a relationship that clings to the heart even with the passage of time. Throughout the collection, Kelly focuses on “Her” as he re-imagines his world through the prism of lost love, weaving ghosts of the past both metaphorically and figuratively, into a lush verse that is romantic, bold, erotic, and speaks to the heart. These are not your typical badly written, saccharine love poems, rather these poems are artfully written with bone rattling repetitions organized in couplets, tercets, and sometimes quatrains. Kelly’s poetry maneuvers the white space of every page in accordance with his lines, at times relying on the space of the page to form his poems into non-traditional forms. In WOUNDS FRAGMENTS DERELICT Kelly also expresses resentment, fear, guilt, and misery, as he yearns for a lost love that denies him the possibility of moving forward. With honesty, poignancy, and romantic flair, Kelly distills the most exhilarating highs and heartbreaking lows of life and love into evocative lines that will become etched in the reader’s mind. Read this. We dare you. You will not be disappointed.

Contributors

Introduction by Sean Frederick Forbes

SEAN FREDERICK FORBES is the Director of the Creative Writing Program and Assistant Professor-in-Residence, Department of English at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. He serves as editor of the 2Leaf Press’ series, 2LP EXPLORATIONS IN DIVESRSITY, and has co-edited two books under that series: The Beiging of America, Personal Narratives about Being Mixed Race in the Twenty-First Century (2017), and WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE WHITE IN AMERICA? Breaking the White Code of Silence, A Collection of Personal Narratives (2016). The author of the poetry collection, Providencia: A Book of Poems (2013), he has written numerous introductions for 2Leaf Press poetry collections. His work has appeared in various journals, including Chagrin River Review, Crab Orchard Review, Long River Review, Midwest Quarterly, and Sargasso: A Journal of Caribbean Literature, Language and Culture. http://seanfrederickforbes.com.

Here's What People Are Saying

“Fluent in the language of hope and loss, WOUNDS FRAGMENTS DERELICT offers up pieces of a love story careening towards its familiar and inevitable end. From the delicate ruins, Carlos Gabriel Kelly has crafted a new world of hard-won wisdom, where the tender roots of romance, family and his Mexican culture intertwine. Steeped in nostalgia and shaped by the rough music of contemporary life, this is a beautiful and essential first book.” —Silvia Curbelo, award-winning poet and writer, author of The Secret History of Water (2015) and Falling Landscape (2015)

“I love the cheer energy and passion of Carlos Kelly’s voice in WOUNDS FRAGMENTS DERELICT. There is intricate range of emotion in this work the way it uplifts and brings to life various registers of language in the lyric. I love the attentiveness to detail the large, Whitmanic embrace, the insistence on living-in-the word. This is a gorgeous, memorable debut.” —Ilya Kaminsky, award-winning poet and author of Dancing in Odessa (2004) and Deaf Republic: Poems (2019)

“In a shattering debut collection of poetry, WOUNDS FRAGMENTS DERELICT, Carlos Gabriel Kelly’s first statement is a question. Much begins from the interrogative. What are love poems? Kelly answers utilizing a line break: ‘Fragments not in any language.’ The form borrows from the large tradition of Asian poetics, less heavily leaning on the didactic, working by juxtaposition, this poetry of implication has long been favored in United States poetics. As us Latinxs know well, it is a poetic aesthetic of much orgullo. Through these subtleties Kelly ensembles a formally dexterous work wound tight with pathos. This poetry has fallen through the many emotional and psychological trapdoors of love, and to open this poetry is to discover love in La Frontera.” —David Tomas Martinez, award-winning poet and writer, author of Hustle (2014) and Post-Traumatic Hood Disorder (2018)