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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Speak, Shade

Speak, Shade

Gibson, Raymond

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 0984035222
ISBN13: 9780984035229
Publisher: Glass Lyre Pr
Published: Dec 1 2013
Pages: 48
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.12 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Raymond Gibson's sparse, intense, lovely, and ghostly chapbook, Speak, Shade, is born of light and sight. Each poem within is a candle-orange rays of illumination, flickering brief and breathless. Gibson reveals tapers of timeless beauty, yet cautions us not to fly too close to the sun. Beginning with The Cataracts and ending with Blink and Blind Timescapes, the poet dares us to see what we ordinarily try to shield our eyes from, while offering us salve and salvation for all of the red absences. Using every color of the spectrum, especially the spectral ones, Gibson always returns to light and the perception of light, casting white-hot beams on our fragility and futility. In this book you will find little wounds, tiny licks of flame, alternately burning and melting over the glowing (and majestic) fires of our lives. -Cin Hochman, Editor-in-Chief, First Literary Review-East

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