Moving from the mundane to the profound, first through observation of fact and matter, then shifting perspective, engaging a deeper sense of self, these poems re-imagine things great and small, making us care deeply about the world around us. In this cultivated and intricately crafted collection, Sally Keith shows the self as a crucible of force--that which compels us to exert ourselves upon the world, and meanwhile renders us vulnerable to it. Force by which a line unfurls--as in Robert Smithson's colossal Spiral Jetty--or leads with forward motion--a train hurdling along the west-reaching railroad; Edweard Muybridge's photographic reels charting animal and human locomotion. With poems remarkable in their clarity, captivating in their matter-of-factness, Keith examines the impossible and inevitable privacy of being a person in the world, meanwhile negotiating an inexorable pull toward the places we call home--one we alternately try and fail to resist.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 11/13/2012
ISBN: 9781571314482
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.80w x 0.50d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 08/20/2012 pg. 37
Library Journal 09/01/2012 pg. 104