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Stars of the Night Commute
Ana Bozicevic - 2009
"STARS OF THE NIGHT COMMUTE haunts in three dimensions, knit by a below-words rumble in the sure rhythm of dreams"Annie Finch. "Bozicevic's poetry has everythinga mastery of language, a distinct and singular voice and a worldview so visionary and all-encompassing, so as to both terrify and astound"Noelle Kocot. "How does she do it?"Eileen Myles. "Absolutely anything can happen next but whatever it is, it will be perfect.... She is able to stretch language to its most ineffable and musical limits while maintaining a masterful grasp of the colloquial.... She is able to perceive with the eyes of languagethen render with lyrical immediacythe experience of our collective sleepwalking soul, who may well soon awaken to discover that its terror was not a dream"Franz Wright.
The Bounty: Poems
Derek Walcott - 1997
Opening with the title poem, a memorable elegy to the poet's mother, the book features a haunting series of poems that evoke Walcott's native ground, the island of St. Lucia. "For almost forty years his throbbing and relentless lines kept arriving in the English language like tidal waves," Walcott's great contemporary Joseph Brodsky once observed. "He gives us more than himself or 'a world'; he gives us a sense of infinity embodied in the language."
fluid.
Renaada Williams - 2018
I believe everyone should understand that we all go through things in life, it's all about how we react and recover from them. If you've felt as though you didn't have a voice in a situation, or you weren't sure if you'd get through it "fluid." may be the book for you.