Sparrow on the Rooftop
Rachel Longâs keenly anticipated second collection is a study of desire, crisis and self-realisation, at once moving and whip-smart, from one of our brightest stars.
'At first you eat less because youâre happy,
so fricking happy, the way you are in high summer
when you just canât because of the sun.'
Sparrow on the Rooftop tells a story of new love: the summer-like giddiness of it, the ferocity of obsession, and the stark hollowing of absence. Alongside this affair, and unleashed by its intensity, unfolds another story, half-buried, about our young narratorâs uneasy relationship with her body: âBlack girls// donât get/ eating disorders./ Thatâs a white girl/ thing.â
Desire, indulgence, denial, and transformation are some of the themes that animate this engrossing, at times frighteningly intimate, narrative collection. With fierce wit and uncommon insight, Sparrow interrogates the self and other, and the experience of self as other. These remarkable, penetrating, headlong poems chart disorder and desire, break-up and breakdown, and the hard path towards recovery, confirming Rachel Long as one of the most gifted poets of her generation.
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Rachel Longâs keenly anticipated second collection is a study of desire, crisis and self-realisation, at once moving and whip-smart, from one of our brightest stars.
'At first you eat less because youâre happy,
so fricking happy, the way you are in high summer
when you just canât because of the sun.'
Sparrow on the Rooftop tells a story of new love: the summer-like giddiness of it, the ferocity of obsession, and the stark hollowing of absence. Alongside this affair, and unleashed by its intensity, unfolds another story, half-buried, about our young narratorâs uneasy relationship with her body: âBlack girls// donât get/ eating disorders./ Thatâs a white girl/ thing.â
Desire, indulgence, denial, and transformation are some of the themes that animate this engrossing, at times frighteningly intimate, narrative collection. With fierce wit and uncommon insight, Sparrow interrogates the self and other, and the experience of self as other. These remarkable, penetrating, headlong poems chart disorder and desire, break-up and breakdown, and the hard path towards recovery, confirming Rachel Long as one of the most gifted poets of her generation.
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Rachel Longâs keenly anticipated second collection is a study of desire, crisis and self-realisation, at once moving and whip-smart, from one of our brightest stars.
'At first you eat less because youâre happy,
so fricking happy, the way you are in high summer
when you just canât because of the sun.'
Sparrow on the Rooftop tells a story of new love: the summer-like giddiness of it, the ferocity of obsession, and the stark hollowing of absence. Alongside this affair, and unleashed by its intensity, unfolds another story, half-buried, about our young narratorâs uneasy relationship with her body: âBlack girls// donât get/ eating disorders./ Thatâs a white girl/ thing.â
Desire, indulgence, denial, and transformation are some of the themes that animate this engrossing, at times frighteningly intimate, narrative collection. With fierce wit and uncommon insight, Sparrow interrogates the self and other, and the experience of self as other. These remarkable, penetrating, headlong poems chart disorder and desire, break-up and breakdown, and the hard path towards recovery, confirming Rachel Long as one of the most gifted poets of her generation.
