I Love You But I Don't Speak Your Language: Poems - Paperback

$21.83

I Love You But I Don't Speak Your Language: Poems - Paperback

Name: I Love You But I Don't Speak Your Language: Poems - Paperback
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SKU: 9781625349279
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by Jason Bredle

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Book Overview

Poems that question the world with tenderness and restless introspection

In I Love You But I Don't Speak Your Language, brushes with the profound may lead to brushes with the mundane, or vice versa. Cause and effect become unreasoned and transcendent, at times lifting the arbitrary into the sublime or the sublime into happenstance. Intuitive leaps pull us through oscillations between humor, introspection, and the surreal. These poems don't follow a straight path; instead, they capture the way thoughts shift, contradict, and collide.

Inspired by the poet's dreams, as well as travels throughout central Europe, the West Indies, and Central and South America, the poems are alive in voice and detail, yet the speaker's connections, and more so, disconnections, turn toward isolationism, solitude, and loneliness. At times, the collection leans into restless emotion: "I want to cry / when I think of how / I'll look back at this moment someday / and cry." Other moments pull the reader to "a far away place / of limitless palm trees and sunsets." This is poetry that doesn't try to fit into a traditional form. It questions, observes, and rethinks the world around it. Some moments might seem absurd, others deeply reflective, but all of them work together to create a book that is both thought-provoking and unpredictable.

ISBN	9781625349279
Author	Jason Bredle
Publisher	University of Massachusetts Press
Genre	Literature
Format	Paperback
Published	April 2026
Language	ENG- English
Pages	84
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print

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