Blue Lash: Poems
James Armstrong$12.71
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In Blue Lash, James Armstrong explores the way a physical place can be alchemically transformed into mental geographies.
The world of Lake Superior comes alive and expands outward in these poems: cicadas grind their teeth/under the blue roof of August; a quartz pebble becomes little knuckle/petrified egg/white as a wave-cap; a Jet Ski revs past the dock/like a demon out of Milton. Stripping away the layer of sentimentality that often cloaks the lake, Armstrong portrays it instead as a rebuke to human arrogance, and a reminder of the sublime indifference of wild places.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 03/13/2006
ISBN: 9781571314246
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.88h x 6.64w x 0.21d
Review Citations: Library Journal 08/15/2006 pg. 90
Library Journal 08/01/2006 pg. 90