An Orange, A Syllable

The latest book by Gillian Sze, author of the Pat Lowther Memorial Award–winning book Quiet Night Think

This prosimetrical work is a meditation on motherhood, language, and art. The central speaker witnesses the earliest utterances of her child and launches into a poetic inquiry of words themselves, asking, How to measure one’s mouth by its words? The speaker seeks an answer amidst the language that surrounds her — words misspoken, mispronounced, remembered, unwritten — and, in doing so, st...