Black Series: Poems Paperback - 2003
by Laurie Sheck
This "haunting, beautiful collection" ("Library Journal") is by the author of"The Willow Grove, " a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
From the jacket flap
In her remarkable "Black Series, Laurie Sheck turns the ordinary world inside out and shows us its glittering seams. Her long, elegantly quizzical lines convey a haunted vision of human striving which is in part an elaboration on our daily reality, and in part a fantastic departure from it. "I can almost taste the glassy air," she writes. "Where are the birds in it, / wings lifting as currents buffet them like echoes, bright / chaos of atomized instances . . . ?" Roaming freely in the shifting landscape of the imagination, Sheck delivers an inner life that is just as vivid as what we see around us; at the same time, she shows us what we see in a new light, bringing illumination even to darkness:
It's the black night that wakes in me,
so dominant, so focused.
And then a car goes by and I think,
"I'm in the world,"
tires kicking up gravel from the dust.
What does the orange hawkweed do
inside this dark-its radiance
secretive but not extinguished?
To read this collection is to discover at every turn that secretive but undeniable radiance, and a language that is both riveting and distinctive.
"From the Hardcover edition.
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- Title Black Series: Poems
- Author Laurie Sheck
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 112
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Knopf Publishing Group, New York
- Date 2003-03-01
- ISBN 9780375709654 / 0375709657
- Weight 0.47 lbs (0.21 kg)
- Dimensions 8.76 x 6.02 x 0.43 in (22.25 x 15.29 x 1.09 cm)
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Death/Dying
- Topical: Women's Interest
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001029928
- Dewey Decimal Code 811.54
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