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Metaphors are applied and swapped out, as in “Hydrangea,” where the flower is a snow cone, a “Bearded lady,// balloon man, chameleon,” “honeycomb/ and bouquet,” “viscous muscle,” and more. In “Star Gazers,” “we” look out at the stars, but they are looking right back at us. This striving for fluency could have been born from the childhood speech impediment the poet reflects on poignantly in the opening poem: “since I can’t say everlasting/ I say every/ lost thing.” At the same time, Giannelli is preoccupied with double meanings. “Giannelli’s debut is a quiet affair, but its simplicity masks layers and a longing for precision exhibited through minute adjustments, tweaked phrases, and shifting imagery. From its initial turbulence to its final surprising solace, this debut collection mesmerizes. Ultimately, among lofting waves, collapsing hands, and darkening skies, words themselves-a stutterer's maneuvers through speech, a deceased grandfather’s use of punctuation-become forms of consolation.

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Through a series of self-portraits, elegies, and Eros-tinged meditations, this hovering never subsides but offers, among the fragments, momentary constellations: “moths all swarming the / same light bulb.”įrom the difficulties of stuttering to teetering attempts at love, from struggling to order a hamburger to tracing the deckled edge of a hydrangea, these poems tumble and hum, revealing a hinge between word and world. In these visually porous poems, boundaries waver and reconfigure along the rumbling shoreline of Rockaway or during the intermediary hours that an insomniac undergoes between darkness and dawn.

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This is achieved by not only killing the opposing players but also removing their ability to respawn by destroying their spawn structures.Rain intermits, bus windows steam up, loved ones suffer from dementia-in the constantly shifting, metaphoric world of Tremulous Hinge, figures struggle to remain standing and speaking against forces of gravity, time, and language. The overall objective behind Tremulous is to eliminate the opposing team. The more kills gained the more powerful the classes available. Upon killing a human foe, the alien is able to evolve into a new class. The alien team advances quite differently. These credits may be used to purchase new weapons and upgrades from the 'Armoury'. As a human, players are rewarded with credits for each alien kill. Player advancement is different depending on which team you are on. Other structures provide automated base defense (to some degree), healing functions and much more. The designated builders must ensure there are spawn structures or other players will not be able to rejoin the game after death. These structures provide many functions, the most important being spawning. Players on both teams are able to build working structures in-game like an RTS. Players can choose from 2 unique races, aliens and humans. Tremulous is a free, open source game that blends a team based FPS with elements of an RTS.