If All the World and Love Were Young

By Stephen Sexton

Book Overview

In Stephen Sexton's remarkable debut, the video games of his childhood are once again a way to slip through the looking glass; to be in two places at once; to be two people at once. In these poems about the death of his mother, Sexton charts the familiar levels of Super Mario World, whose flowered landscapes bleed into our world-- and ours, strange with loss, bleed into it. This moving, otherworldly narrative is a daring exploration of memory, grief, and the necessity of the unreal.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 194366708X
• ISBN13: 9781943667086
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Wake Forest University Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"