Inside Ball Lightning - by Rainie Oet (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>Inside Ball Lightning</i> is a book-length memoir in verse that follows the growing distance between poet, Rainie Oet, and their brother Mark over the course of several years around the time of their grandmother's death. It traces a childhood full of competitive chess, Gameboys, ghosts, ESP, and ball lightning. Here, parents' childhoods merge with the poet's in a book that looks back across generations, and looks forward into the continuing implications of the family's immigration experience. Through its masterful craft and stunning attention to detail, <i>Inside Ball Lightning</i> attempts to reconcile terror and love, nostalgia and pain.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"<i>Inside Ball Lightning</i> is Rainie Oet's paean to childhood. In the depiction of the dynamics of a Russian immigrant family, focused on the sibling relationship between the speaker and their brother Mark, the nature of what constitutes love is examined in microscopic detail . . .<i> Inside Ball Lightning</i> is at times a picaresque and at other times a tender tale of growing up, as seen through the discerning lens of Oet's poetic vision." --Chris Kennedy<br><br>"Between grief and beauty, exists a dwelling space. What is it? Rainie Oet sees it very clearly in these lines haunted by elegy, yet uplifted by the lyric. Oet says: 'every time Mark dies it leaves a hole in a wall.' What is to be seen in such spaces? Rainie Oet sees and names our longing for transformation. The gone beloved is named directly, is seen everywhere up close: 'You are fog / on the hand mirror, wind / through the highway.' This is, perhaps, the fate of the elegist, to mourn and to see with clarity: 'You are the moth inside the lightbulb, fluttering.' This is beautiful work." --Ilya Kaminsky, author of <i>Deaf Republic</i><br><br>"Rainie Oet hits poetry's stage with <i>Inside Ball Lightning</i>--a stunning debut collection. Oet has it all. They're smart without over-intellectualizing and lyrical though never at the expense of dramatic reach and psychological depth. Plus their humor will knock you down, and their tenderness will float you genie-like above your seat. An extraordinary display of poetic power, and this year's must-read new voice." --Mary Karr<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Rainie Oet</b> is a nonbinary writer and game designer. They are the author of two other books: <i>Porcupine in Freefall</i> (winner of the Bright Hill Press Poetry Book Competition, 2019) and <i>Glorious Veils of Diane</i> (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2021). Read more at rainieoet.com.
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