Rare High Meadow of Which I Might Dream (Phoenix Poets Series)

Paperback, 72 pages

English language

Published March 1, 2008 by University Of Chicago Press.

ISBN:
978-0-226-86352-8
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OCLC Number:
123137085

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The Bird is Her Reason There are some bodies that emerge into desire as a god rises from the sea, emotion and memory hang like dripping clothes—this want is like entering that heated red

on the mouth of a Delacroix lion, stalwart, always that red which makes my teeth ache and my skin feel a hand that has never touched me, the tree groaning outside becomes a man who knocks on my bedroom window, edge of red on gold fur, the horse, the wild flip of its head, the rake of claws across its back, the unfocussed, swallowed eye.

Rare High Meadow of Which I Might Dream is a book haunted by the afterlife of medieval theology and literature yet grounded in distinctly modern quandaries of desire. Connie Voisine’s female speakers reverberate with notes of Marie de France’s tragic heroines, but whereas Marie’s poems are places where women’s longings quickly …

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Subjects

  • American - General
  • Poetry / Single Author / American
  • American Poetry
  • Poetry