Name: Blood Harmony
SKU: 64743651
Price: 20.72 EUR
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Author: Bruce Snider
ISBN: 9780299355548

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

University of Wisconsin Press

Author

Bruce Snider

Collection

Wisconsin Poetry Series

Year

2025

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2 cm

ISBN13

9780299355548

Blood Harmony

Bruce Snider (Author) · University of Wisconsin Press · Paperback

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Synopsis "Blood Harmony"

An unflinching tale of selfishness and sacrifice, guilt and resentment, hope and despair, Bruce Snider’s fourth collection tells the story of two brothers torn apart by opioid addiction. “He needed help,” writes Snider. “I imagined the chemicals in his brain like the chemicals in mine. // I imagined our DNA, mirrors facing one another—an infinite us.” These sublime poems paint a singular portrait of rural working-class America populated by shuttered tool factories and country gay bars, hidden fishing holes and Dolly Parton drag queens. Drawing on music and myth, science and history, Snider interrogates the bonds of family, exploring themes of masculinity, devotion, sexuality, and the biology of addiction. Yet for all its competing tensions, Blood Harmony leaves us with an enduring portrait of brotherhood defined as much by tenderness as by pain. In considering the parable of the prodigal son, Snider acutely notes, “without the older brother’s / flawed heart, // there is no story.” And finally, in a later poem, he reminds us that “Cain must be judged / because he did what’s forbidden— // he survived.”