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Ordinary Sun

Ordinary Sun

Henriksen, Matthew

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Literary CriticismGeneral Poetry

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ISBN10: 0984475222
ISBN13: 9780984475223
Publisher: Black Ocean
Published: Feb 7 2011
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.40 Depth: 7.50
Language: English
Henriksen opens Ordinary Sun by insisting that an eye is not enough. Resisting solipsism, these poems negotiate that conflict between the mind and what exists outside the mind. Though pain intrinsically resides in that conflict Henriksen strives for an honest happiness, a kind of gorgeous suffering that blesses our days. To this end, these poems emerge from images of all those innumerable things that embody both visceral and ethereal beauty--rocks, trees, broken glass, baseball, angels... Here we find immediacy immersed in the image, and in the reading of these poems becomes ourselves immersed in the immediate.

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