Synopses & Reviews
Poetry. Winner of the 2002 National Poetry Series, the book in four parts explores a dark world of sleep, dreams and evil. But there is also joy in Sikelianos's work. Amidst the fears and despair for her own life and those of her children, the author recognizes the beauty of nature in the fleetingness of the natural world. As this year's selector, Diane Ward, has noted: "The poems in THE MONSTER LIVES OF BOYS AND GIRLS are a long, sensuous exhalation of poetic generosity . . . In reading this work of poetry we find ourselves cheek-to-cheek with the world, breath held so as not to interrupt the flow."
Synopsis
Winner of the 2002 National Poetry Series, selected by Diane Ward, this book in four parts explores a dark world of sleep, dreams, and evil. But there is also joy in Sikelianos’s work. Amidst the fears and despair for her own life and those of her children, the author recognizes the beauty of nature of the fleetingness of the natural world: "summer summer summer thunder, thief, thief, thief in the night it’s something you love, it’s there only for you.
Synopsis
Winner of the 2002 National Poetry Series, selected by Diane Ward, this book in four parts explores a dark world of sleep, dreams, and evil. But there is also joy in Sikelianos’s work. Amidst the fears and despair for her own life and those of her children, the author recognizes the beauty of nature of the fleetingness of the natural world: "summer summer summer thunder, thief, thief, thief in the night it’s something you love, it’s there only for you.
Synopsis
Winner of the 2002 National Poetry Series, selected by Diane Ward.
About the Author
Eleni Sikelianos recently moved to Boulder, Colorado, where she teaches. She is the author of to speak while dreaming, Poetics of the Exclamation Point, A Book of Ease, and The Book of Tendons.