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Twigs and Knucklebones

by Sarah Lindsay

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Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

"Had Dr. Dolittle fathered a prodigious daughter, she might well be behind the bizarre and entertaining personae found on the pages of Lindsay's first-book bestiary...Lindsay's dark-edged, sometimes creepy poems are also imbued with a buoying sense of respect for the different, the unexpected and the challenging.... In work reminiscent of Amy Clampitt and of Albert Goldbarth, Lindsay weaves informed and moving lyric claims around scientific facts, lamenting extinct species or following local rivers."

Publishers Weekly

"Twigs & Knucklebones is a rare thing in poetry—a very good read....(Sarah Kindsay's) voice...is omniscient yet intimate, super-literate and flawlessly graceful, like a really good lecturer who knows how to entertain an audience while speaking on complex subject matters."

Poetry Foundation

"With wonder and bemusement, Lindsay writes supple, sparkling poems about life's perpetual coalescence and breaking down....The heart of this mordant yet profoundly compassionate book is a vivid and involving series about the fictional ancient kingdom of Nab. Here Lindsay sifts through the detritus of a civilization, imagines the inner worlds of people long gone, and the layering of tomb upon tomb, city upon city as bone, clay vessels, and the inscribed tablets are all crushed into splinters and shards."

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“Sarah Lindsay is blessed with the sort of X-ray vision a philosopher would kill for.”—The New York Times Book Review

Quirky, macabre, vivid, and fascinating, Sarah Lindsay’s poetry in Twigs and Knucklebones melds science and art with astonishing facts that might just be true: spadefoot toads singing till their throats bleed, an explorer tumbling into an Antarctic crevasse and swinging from his tether like a pendulum.

Many of Lindsay’s poems occur in extremis, and the situations are often severe and surreal: the futuristic “Valhalla Burn Unit on the Moon Callisto” or a bog person discovered in Eske’s Field. These characters often span—in the space of a poem—various times, cultures, and contexts. Lindsay also creates her own fictional kingdom and peoples it with outlandish characters, including jerboas, megalomaniac archaeologists, an adjunct professor, goatherds, farmers, and the god Nummis, who is depicted with a “hawk on his head, fish in one hand, horned ibex at either side.”

We prod and whisk and deduce what we can

from marks in clay, from the trace of a wall.

But the way the king tossed and caught his adoring daughters,

the foolish songs he improvised for his wife, and his furry voice—

these have been safely forgotten.

Sarah Lindsay is the author of two previous books of poems. Her debut volume was a finalist for the National Book Award. She lives in North Carolina.

Review:

"Most of the highly detailed scenes in this third collection from Lindsay (Primate Behavior) come from an invented ancient Near Eastern city called Nab, where Lindsay's imaginary archeologists excavate evidence of ancient gods, ancient building projects and ancient quandaries not unlike our own: 'a dry land pounded down at too many crossroads.' Nab fell victim to shifting 'trade routes,/ drought, scouring winds, jerboas and salt.' Superb set pieces imitate modern investigators' methods: Lindsay gives us a set of infants preserved in jars, the 'abashed... new priest of a god without hands' and a 'Reconstruction of Temple Area, Seventh Level' that is also a lament for modern old age. Before and after archeology, at the beginning and end of this capacious collection, comes ecology, along with geography and biology. In work reminiscent of Amy Clampitt and of Albert Goldbarth, Lindsay weaves informed and moving lyric claims around scientific facts, lamenting extinct species or following local rivers. Some poems warn us to care better for Earth, and all become reminders of our own short spans here, as when this extraordinary writer envisions her own life as a river, 'full/ of salmon shoving upstream to breed and die,/ not one of them saying/ remember, remember me.'" Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)

Synopsis:

"Lindsay's poems open doors to other worlds and other ways of seeing."--New York Times

Synopsis:

Poetry. Quirky, macabre, vivid, and spellbinding, Sarah Lindsay's third book of poetry TWIGS AND KNUCKLEBONES melds science and art with astonishing facts that just might be true. "Sarah Lindsay.uncovers a curio cabinet of delights that illuminates, as if from within, the intricate links between people and their origins"-The New York Times Book Review. Lindsay's poems often span-in the space of a few lines-centuries, cultures, and contexts, as they open new worlds and unveil new ways of seeing that are undeniably grounded in the present. ".Lindsay's dark-edged, sometimes creepy poems are also imbued with a buoying sense of respect for the different, the unexpected and the challenging"-Publishers Weekly.

Synopsis:

"Sarah Lindsay is blessed with the sort of X-ray vision a philosopher would kill for."-The New York Times Book Review

Quirky, macabre, vivid, and fascinating, Sarah Lindsay's poetry in Twigs and Knucklebones melds science and art with astonishing facts that might just be true: spadefoot toads singing till their throats bleed, an explorer tumbling into an Antarctic crevasse and swinging from his tether like a pendulum.

Many of Lindsay's poems occur in extremis, and the situations are often severe and surreal: the futuristic "Valhalla Burn Unit on the Moon Callisto"or a bog person discovered in Eske's Field. These characters often span-in the space of a poem-various times, cultures, and contexts. Lindsay also creates her own fictional kingdom and peoples it with outlandish characters, including jerboas, megalomaniac archaeologists, an adjunct professor, goatherds, farmers, and the god Nummis, who is depicted with a "hawk on his head, fish in one hand, horned ibex at either side."

We prod and whisk and deduce what we can

from marks in clay, from the trace of a wall.

But the way the king tossed and caught his adoring daughters,

the foolish songs he improvised for his wife, and his furry voice-

these have been safely forgotten.

Sarah Lindsay is the author of two previous books of poems. Her debut volume was a finalist for the National Book Award. She lives in North Carolina.

About the Author

Sarah Lindsay is the author of Primate Behavior, a finalist for the 1997 National Book Award, and of Mount Clutter. Her newest book is Twigs and Knucklebones (Copper Canyon Press, 2008). Lindsay's work has appeared in several literary magazines and reviews, and she is employed as a copyeditor at numerous publications.

Product Details

ISBN:
9781556591648
Author:
Lindsay, Sarah
Publisher:
Copper Canyon Press
Location:
Port Townsend, Wash.
Subject:
American - General
Subject:
General Poetry
Subject:
Poetry-A to Z
Subject:
Single Author / American
Copyright:
Edition Description:
Trade Paper
Series Volume:
no. <21>, etc.
Publication Date:
20081031
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
80
Dimensions:
9 x 6 x 0.3 in 7.5 oz

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"Publishers Weekly Review" by , "Most of the highly detailed scenes in this third collection from Lindsay (Primate Behavior) come from an invented ancient Near Eastern city called Nab, where Lindsay's imaginary archeologists excavate evidence of ancient gods, ancient building projects and ancient quandaries not unlike our own: 'a dry land pounded down at too many crossroads.' Nab fell victim to shifting 'trade routes,/ drought, scouring winds, jerboas and salt.' Superb set pieces imitate modern investigators' methods: Lindsay gives us a set of infants preserved in jars, the 'abashed... new priest of a god without hands' and a 'Reconstruction of Temple Area, Seventh Level' that is also a lament for modern old age. Before and after archeology, at the beginning and end of this capacious collection, comes ecology, along with geography and biology. In work reminiscent of Amy Clampitt and of Albert Goldbarth, Lindsay weaves informed and moving lyric claims around scientific facts, lamenting extinct species or following local rivers. Some poems warn us to care better for Earth, and all become reminders of our own short spans here, as when this extraordinary writer envisions her own life as a river, 'full/ of salmon shoving upstream to breed and die,/ not one of them saying/ remember, remember me.'" Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
"Synopsis" by ,
"Lindsay's poems open doors to other worlds and other ways of seeing."--New York Times
"Synopsis" by , Poetry. Quirky, macabre, vivid, and spellbinding, Sarah Lindsay's third book of poetry TWIGS AND KNUCKLEBONES melds science and art with astonishing facts that just might be true. "Sarah Lindsay.uncovers a curio cabinet of delights that illuminates, as if from within, the intricate links between people and their origins"-The New York Times Book Review. Lindsay's poems often span-in the space of a few lines-centuries, cultures, and contexts, as they open new worlds and unveil new ways of seeing that are undeniably grounded in the present. ".Lindsay's dark-edged, sometimes creepy poems are also imbued with a buoying sense of respect for the different, the unexpected and the challenging"-Publishers Weekly.
"Synopsis" by , "Sarah Lindsay is blessed with the sort of X-ray vision a philosopher would kill for."-The New York Times Book Review

Quirky, macabre, vivid, and fascinating, Sarah Lindsay's poetry in Twigs and Knucklebones melds science and art with astonishing facts that might just be true: spadefoot toads singing till their throats bleed, an explorer tumbling into an Antarctic crevasse and swinging from his tether like a pendulum.

Many of Lindsay's poems occur in extremis, and the situations are often severe and surreal: the futuristic "Valhalla Burn Unit on the Moon Callisto"or a bog person discovered in Eske's Field. These characters often span-in the space of a poem-various times, cultures, and contexts. Lindsay also creates her own fictional kingdom and peoples it with outlandish characters, including jerboas, megalomaniac archaeologists, an adjunct professor, goatherds, farmers, and the god Nummis, who is depicted with a "hawk on his head, fish in one hand, horned ibex at either side."

We prod and whisk and deduce what we can

from marks in clay, from the trace of a wall.

But the way the king tossed and caught his adoring daughters,

the foolish songs he improvised for his wife, and his furry voice-

these have been safely forgotten.

Sarah Lindsay is the author of two previous books of poems. Her debut volume was a finalist for the National Book Award. She lives in North Carolina.

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