Staff Pick
Open this book and inside you will find slender slivers, pulsating with life: a cooked capon wedged in the ceiling; a caretaker rescuing whores; frogs falling from the sky; "the blue coffin of trees"; a tacklebox of shiny lures; "the moon hiding in a bowl of blood oranges"; a yard of white feathers; "the house you grew up in"; Prometheus locked in his bedroom; "little moons spilled on the floor"; the tattoo of a concentration camp survivor; a jar of commas; "people who suffer from boanthropy"; a keyhole of past lives. These tiny poems read like flash fiction, and they're bubbling over with humanity. Beautiful. Recommended By Dianah H., Powells.com
Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Poetry. The poems in this collection reach for something other than truth, the marvelous. Leaves fall out of coat sleeves, Gandhi swims in Burrard Inlet. The poems are like empty coats from which the inhabitants have recently escaped, leaving behind images as clues to their identity. There are leaps between logics within the poems, and it is in these illogical spaces where everything comes together, like the uplift of the conductor's hand to begin a piece of music where, as Arvo Part put it, the potential of the whole exists.