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Black Series: Poems
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ISBN10: 0375709657
ISBN13: 9780375709654
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: Mar 4 2003
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.43 Width: 6.02 Depth: 8.76
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780375709654
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: Mar 4 2003
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.43 Width: 6.02 Depth: 8.76
Language: English
In her remarkable Black Series, Laurie Sheck turns the ordinary world inside out and shows us its glittering seams. Her long, elegantly quizzical lines convey a haunted vision of human striving which is in part an elaboration on our daily reality, and in part a fantastic departure from it. I can almost taste the glassy air, she writes. Where are the birds in it, / wings lifting as currents buffet them like echoes, bright / chaos of atomized instances . . . ? Roaming freely in the shifting landscape of the imagination, Sheck delivers an inner life that is just as vivid as what we see around us; at the same time, she shows us what we see in a new light, bringing illumination even to darkness: It's the black night that wakes in me,
so dominant, so focused.
And then a car goes by and I think,
I'm in the world,
tires kicking up gravel from the dust.
What does the orange hawkweed do
inside this dark-its radiance
secretive but not extinguished? To read this collection is to discover at every turn that secretive but undeniable radiance, and a language that is both riveting and distinctive.
And then a car goes by and I think,
I'm in the world,
tires kicking up gravel from the dust.
What does the orange hawkweed do
inside this dark-its radiance
secretive but not extinguished? To read this collection is to discover at every turn that secretive but undeniable radiance, and a language that is both riveting and distinctive.
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