Green is the Orator follows on Sarah Gridley s brilliant first collection, Weather Eye Open, in addressing the challenge of representing nature through language. Gridley s deftly original syntax arises from direct experience of the natural world and from encounters with other texts, including the Egyptian Book of the Dead and the writings of Charles Darwin, Peter Mark Roget, William Morris, William James, and Henri Bergson. Gridley s own idiom is compressed, original, and full of unexpected pleasures. This unusual book, at once austere and full of life, reflects a penetrating...
Green is the Orator follows on Sarah Gridley s brilliant first collection, Weather Eye Open, in addressing the challenge of representing...
Srikanth Reddy s second book of poetry probes this world s cosmological relation to the plurality of all possible worlds. Drawing its name from the spacecraft currently departing our solar system on an embassy to the beyond, Voyager unfolds as three books within a book and culminates in a chilling Dantean allegory of leadership and its failure in the cause of humanity. At the heart of this volume lies the historical figure of Kurt WaldheimSecretary-General of the U.N. from 1972-81 and former intelligence officer in Hitler s Wehrmachtwho once served as a spokesman for humanity while...
Srikanth Reddy s second book of poetry probes this world s cosmological relation to the plurality of all possible worlds. Drawing its name from the sp...