Recalling Hopkins or Dickinson in their urgency, these poems seduce the reader into experiencing life's darkest moments while revealing unexpected shafts of light. In a voice that is at once confident, elegant, and doubtful, the author scans the world as if through the wrong end of a telescope, employing recurrent images and exploring obsessions to produce a remarkably exact account of remote, intimate dealings. I will have to explain myself to myself, she writes, but in doing so communicates a great deal about all of us.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: House of Anansi Press
Published: 09/22/2005
ISBN: 9780887847264
Pages: 69
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 8.47h x 5.58w x 0.23d