Poetry From the Desert Floor

ISBN-13: 9781470024796 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 50 str.

Pat Kelley

Opis

Patient, honest investigations of the places where external environment and personal identity clash and reshape one another. Kirkus Review ..An all-encompassing context, the desert never functions as mere backdrop; rather, it infiltrates all, sometimes quite literally, as when the -winds blow / off the Rockies / leaving dirt on the floor, / in the bed, / on the old flowered sofa, / settling softly on the dishes.- Nor are the human inhabitants unaffected. Under the unfiltered glare, men live harsh lives marked by violent ritual, while women labor quietly and unceasingly. Kelley's portrayals are hardly one-dimensional, however. Her poems capture a complicated, beautiful interplay of human and natural forces. Each of her subjects, no matter how unforgiving the circumstances, -grows into a desert bloom, fragile, beautiful, human.-...Visual imagery complements the author's atmospheric photography... Kelley's unique explorations into the intersections of ecology and identity make her well worth the read.