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ISBN10: 1935514199
ISBN13: 9781935514190
Publisher: Plain View Press, LLC
Published: Sep 15 2010
Pages: 98
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.20 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781935514190
Publisher: Plain View Press, LLC
Published: Sep 15 2010
Pages: 98
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.20 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
This is an accessible must-read for all readers, from conventional poetic aficionados to those who wouldn't touch a rhyme scheme with a ten-foot pole. . . . Active verbs drip from the pages of this collection, treating the reader to expert English poetics. Allusions to canonical literature smile at the reader and second the expertise of the poet. Thompson-Slaughter reveals her proficiency with many styles of formal poetry, yet she shines most in her open-form pieces, through which honesty speaks loudest.
Sueann Wells
Author of Awake Before Dawn and
Midnight Summons
Editor of Mother Muse Denise Thompson-Slaughter's poems celebrate the sound and sense of those elements that form an authentic life, that make us both beast and believer, bound to this world and yet longing for the heavens. In Elemental, she puts her 'best ear forward/And what I hear...makes my heart...blaze in its dark cage'; and we don't mind inhabiting that imagination, even when 'death arrives in a cloak as kind as silk/where we had expected sack cloth.' With careful attention to her perceived world, she gives us a 'focus of sounds...to comprehend this place/well enough to move through it/with some grace.'
Charles Coté
Author of Flying for the Window
Author of Awake Before Dawn and
Midnight Summons
Editor of Mother Muse Denise Thompson-Slaughter's poems celebrate the sound and sense of those elements that form an authentic life, that make us both beast and believer, bound to this world and yet longing for the heavens. In Elemental, she puts her 'best ear forward/And what I hear...makes my heart...blaze in its dark cage'; and we don't mind inhabiting that imagination, even when 'death arrives in a cloak as kind as silk/where we had expected sack cloth.' With careful attention to her perceived world, she gives us a 'focus of sounds...to comprehend this place/well enough to move through it/with some grace.'
Charles Coté
Author of Flying for the Window
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