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Dark Sky Question, and: Grazing (review)

Dark Sky Question, and: Grazing (review) Dark Sky Question by Larissa Szporluk. Boston: Beacon Press, 1998. 71 pages, paper $12. Grazing by Ira Sadoff. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1998. 72 pages, paper $12.95. Larissa Szporluk won the Barnard New Women Poet Series contest with Dark Sky Question. "Mysterious lyric" Brenda Hillman called it in her introduction. Alice Fulton wrote "Good strange" on the back cover. Rather than join their chorus, citing Herbert and Coleridge and postmodernism as important to understanding Szporluk's intentions, I quote "Ghost Continent": It's a lot like emptiness, the season of dying fish, black drink, the person you loved best, and left, giving off light in the recession. It would have startled the fire user, who towered over nature, this material you're passing through, Reviews to save a little of, like a radio. Paddle faster. Skim across the giant things in hiding, blow on the stick. The deep returns a makeshift surface, wake, blue-tarred road. Miles from here (but you're gone) the wrong land will be discovered. Of contemporaries, I am reminded of Laura Jensen and her Bad Boats (Ecco Press, 1977), the last poet of note to abjure anything like language poetry yet abandon personal narrative--in her case, out http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Manoa University of Hawai'I Press

Dark Sky Question, and: Grazing (review)

Svoboda, Terese.
Manoa , Volume 12 (1) – Apr 1, 2000
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Dark Sky Question by Larissa Szporluk. Boston: Beacon Press, 1998. 71 pages, paper $12. Grazing by Ira Sadoff. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1998. 72 pages, paper $12.95. Larissa Szporluk won the Barnard New Women Poet Series contest with Dark Sky Question. "Mysterious lyric" Brenda Hillman called it in her introduction. Alice Fulton wrote "Good strange" on the back cover. Rather than join their chorus, citing Herbert and Coleridge and postmodernism as important to understanding Szporluk's intentions, I quote "Ghost Continent": It's a lot like emptiness, the season of dying fish, black drink, the person you loved best, and left, giving off light in the recession. It would have startled the fire user, who towered over nature, this material you're passing through, Reviews to save a little of, like a radio. Paddle faster. Skim across the giant things in hiding, blow on the stick. The deep returns a makeshift surface, wake, blue-tarred road. Miles from here (but you're gone) the wrong land will be discovered. Of contemporaries, I am reminded of Laura Jensen and her Bad Boats (Ecco Press, 1977), the last poet of note to abjure anything like language poetry yet abandon personal narrative--in her case, out

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Published: Apr 1, 2000

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