Jason Carney
Auteur de Starve the Vulture: A Memoir
Œuvres de Jason Carney
The Night Turns It's Eye 2 exemplaires
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Jason Carney
One of the hardest things to do in a memoir is to turn a critical eye not just on your family or the world that made and betrayed you, but also on yourself. What you did with what you were given, and who you hurt along the way. And if you do overcome that hurdle, the trap waiting on the other side is just as treacherous: to not wallow in self-recrimination and hate, beating your chest and rending your shirt and demanding we all stare and agree that you are a horrible, horrible person.
Poet Jason Carney deftly sidesteps both of these genre-endemic problems to render his life in jagged, honest pieces, like bracing shots of whiskey. Jumping across several periods in his life, he turns his unflinching observer’s eye on his childhood trauma, and the way he re-enacted those traumas on the world as a young man - homophobia, racism, drug addiction, crime and violence.
The warm heart of the piece is his large extended family, and the refuge they provided for a young man who filled yellow legal pads with words because he needed to, not knowing or caring what they meant. To stop writing was to give in to death, a ledge he teeters on the edge of more than once.
Lyrical without being overblown, non-linear but still very satisfying, Starve The Vulture is a memoir that stays with you after the covers are closed.… (plus d'informations)