Lake Effect
- ISBN-10
- 0615819958
- ISBN-13
- 9780615819952
- Series
- Lake Effect
- Category
- Michigan
- Pages
- 40
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-06-04
- Author
- Sara Quinn Rivara
Description
Ever marry the wrong man? There's a fury loose in these poems, seething, a woman trapped: "blinds shut, the world and all its space, denied." Like her presiding spirit, Persephone, Rivara brings eloquent life to that dead zone, auguring eventual escape, with a musician's schooled and pitch-perfect ear, a sensual feel and exact eye for nature, language honed to the finest edge: "lakes's raw lace-edge, cuttooth moon, loons/knife beneath foam: spring, unsheathing." ~ Eleanor Wilner The poems in Sara Quinn Rivara's Lake Effect enact a high-stakes "beautiful mess" of a life. The Michigan she conjures is a site of myth renewed by the deeply-witnessed world, where logs are "blistered with frogs" and "the grasses undo from the sky's blue loom." Her lines are Whitman-wide, her ferocity Plathian in the dizzying blade of its diction: "Your body...befuddles the thrush, baffles the moon. Is a sugar-tit of reassurance." The lush beauty and opulent music of Rivara's lines serves the subversive intent of all great poetry-to recoup one's life from the forces of erasure, so that "what I hold in my hands I own." ~ Diane Seuss, author of Wolf Lake, White Gown Blown Open, Winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry
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