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Book of the Peony

Book of the Peony

Orozco, Gaspar
Weiss, Mark

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1848615663
ISBN13: 9781848615663
Publisher: Summertime Pub
Published: Oct 13 2017
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.23 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Mark Weiss. Gaspar Orozco's extraordinary BOOK OF THE PEONY blew me away by a storm of quiet flame and blackness and nothing everythingness. I am writing this from Pont-Aven, where I have come to write about colonies and gatherings of artists, before regaining (what an inapproprié word, ) and suddenly this poetry hits me in the Breton chill with--I can't say what--a dark blaze when I expected I have no idea what? I had been thinking ah, peony, like pensée, like a beloved and delicate pansy of thought, but this peony is nearer the chrysanthemum of Japanese writing from long ago. This remarkable poetry brings the long ago into nowness, if I can put it like that. It lights from far and also near, burning. --Mary Ann Caws

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