Black Series Poems

Name: Black Series Poems
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ISBN: 9780375709654

ISBN-10: 0375709657

ISBN-13: 9780375709654

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Authors: Laurie Sheck

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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…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/4/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 112
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.352
Language: English

Laurie Sheck has taught at Princeton University and is a member of the graduate creative writing faculty at the New School. She lives in New York City.



The Store Windows Glitter


Then a Dusk Like This


Meanwhile the Lilies Start to Close


So Fast Away


Driving Home


The Mannequins


In Curious May


Bridal Veil


Medusa


Instructions for a Black and White Photograph


Circuits


The Flowers


The Cave


Foal


The Horses


Memory Palaces


Pompeii


The Burned Tree


No Printout


Sun


Wall-Writing


Broken Window


Traces


The Carpenter Bees


Waking


Seaweeds


Escape Velocity


Dark Lullaby


The Crossing


Tracks


Walls


Summer Storm


Inside the Screen


No Threshold


Heath


In the South Bronx


At Niaux


"To Telle Him Tydings How the Wind Was Went"


The Subway Platform