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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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What the Sky Lacks

What the Sky Lacks

Caraway, Thom

Paperback

Series: Poet Laureate

General Poetry

ISBN10: 0983151350
ISBN13: 9780983151357
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Dec 27 2018
Pages: 84
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.20 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
With an unwavering ascendancy of the austere, Thom Caraway's What the Sky Lacks explores the negative capability of uncertainties and mysteries in a landscape of ruthless severity and elusive beauty, a world built of unknown language. While witnessing the stark refuge of cottonwood shelterbelts on a field's ragged periphery, listening to the tender weight of empty freight cars rolling through the night, or recounting the dream of a wrecker wherein human warmth exists only in the transient sounds of strangers, a soul transforms into an instrument of pure light, a circular machine of illumination. The spiritual discipline of recognizing beauty in a world of desolation emerges sheer, unadorned as the rugged territories in the northern badlands obliterated by merciless blizzards, unburnished yet dazzlingly beatific in wintry ruminations of a faith weathered out of wreckage. Instead of hungering for uneasy solace, this enduring poet vows, We'll rename the world. (Karen An-hwei Lee)

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