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Loose Sugar

Loose Sugar

Hillman, Brenda

Paperback

Series: Wesleyan Poetry

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 0819522430
ISBN13: 9780819522436
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: Mar 21 1997
Pages: 127
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.39 Width: 5.95 Depth: 8.93
Language: English
Awards: National Book Critics Circle Award

An elaborate collection of poems that culminate in a meditation on the possibility of a native and feminine language,

Loose Sugar is an alchemical manuscript disguised as a collection of poems, or vice versa. Either way, the primal materials of which this book is comprised -- love, sex, adolescence, space-time, depression, post-colonialism, and sugar -- are movingly and mysteriously transmuted: not into gold, but into a poet's philosopher's stone, in which language marries life.

Structurally virtuosic, elaborate without being ornate, Loose Sugar is spun into series within series: each of the five sections has a dual heading (such as space / time or time / work) in which the terms are neither in collision nor collusion, but in conversation. It's elemental sweet talk, and is Brenda Hillman's most experimental work to date, culminating in a meditation on the possibility of a native -- and feminine -- language.

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