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Light Is the Odalisque

Light Is the Odalisque

Walters, Lawanda

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1941209394
ISBN13: 9781941209394
Publisher: Pr 53
Published: Apr 1 2016
Pages: 122
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.29 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This wide-ranging, beautiful, and painful book reveals LaWanda Walters as a masterful, brave, and dangerous poet. As much at home with a disciplined free verse as with traditional forms, and as comfortable with narrative as with lyric, Walters delivers (like the morning mail, like a baby) a world. The odalisque is light-meaning not heavy, meaning luminous. How odd, we discover, that a direction-like South-takes on meaning like a person's face. The poems are (or appear to be) autobiographical in the best sense. I searched myself, Heraclitus declared, and Walters's book, written in that spirit, stokes the Heraclitean fire with embers from a burning heart. -T.R. Hummer, author of Skandalon: Poems

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