Horror Vacui: Poems
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"These are ambitious, moving poems, deft, panged, and stunning."--Dean Young "Existential chilliness, mourning, and dread find a uniquely compelling voice in Thomas Heise's poetry. . . ."--Alan Williamson "Horror Vacui offers an often vertiginous account of how death imposes an] irresistible fact on minds bent on both accommodating and resisting this one inevitable yet impossible truth. . . . And it's this property of being...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1932511326
ISBN13:9781932511321
Release Date:April 2006
Publisher:Sarabande Books
Length:88 Pages
Weight:0.40 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 6.1" x 9.0"
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A cold wind
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
blows through this book. Heise's voice is so lyric, haunted but also married to an ear keen on music, the rhythmic impulse that drives a poetic line. Specific images, (associated with florida, childhood) recur and keep drifting from poem to poem, like the mind is stuttering, trying to find the specific, right way to say, "what I have lost, I remember", "I lost what I remember", "What I remember I lost". Stunning debut.
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