Depleted Burden Down

Author: Deborah Meadows

Publisher: Factory School (2009)

Here is a poetry that explores the promise of public speech. What might we hear in poems that ask: if communities are built with weathered words, what is the sort of discernment that translation makes elusive? Public and private, Deborah Meadows's poems ask "what provokes us to step toward the podium and begin a primary language game."