Water WorkChax Press, 2007 - 79 pages Poetry. In five stunning sequences, Sarah Riggs has created a poetics of elastic migrations that imagines the world as clusters, skeins, and motions whose innate peril is miraculously saved in hte act of naming: 'each name for a thing seems intent to curl from its shelled meaning.' Places, histories, persons, myth and object, intimacy and incident, are precision shorelines of simultaneous apprehension and erasure. In this subtle and luminous first book, Sarah Riggs has engaged our most fundamental quandaries in a poetry that announces, in Stevens' phrase, 'a new knowledge of reality.'--Ann Lauterbach. [Riggs] turns her acute eye to contemporary culture as well as natural history and her ear to the subtle balances of rhythm and assonance. The result is a beautiful attention that illuminates nuance, making the everyday world more detailed and thus more grand--Cole Swensen. |
Table des matières
Section 1 | 29 |
Section 2 | 39 |
Section 3 | 43 |
Droits d'auteur | |
1 autres sections non affichées
Expressions et termes fréquents
Aquatics Arts Begin Bits blending blue bodies brain coral breast breath Champagne Flutes chance Charles Chax Press close color Cretan CROSS curl difference dreams drift Editions emotion ends everything eyes feel felt fingers float folded follow forms French give glass hair hands head held horizon imagine inside intent It's kind language late letter lines lips live looks lost méduse MICHIGAN milk mind mouths move nails nature never night olive opening paint Paris past pause pigments planet pockets poetry present pulled pulse reach reason Responsibilities rock salt sand scratch seaweed separate shell skin slides smile speak spread step stone stop street stretch sure sway there's things thinking thought touch translated true turning verb voice washed watch waves whole wish words writing