Poetry. Winner of the Four Way Books Levis Poetry Prize.
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"Just a few years ago, when everything was permanent./ Or on the edge of. Or, yes, perhaps over the edge,/ or falling away fromA." What might first appear vague in Mart!nez's poems is actually the gloss of mysteryAthe mystery that scenes are conjured, that moments are lived and relived until they have passed through to poetry. This debut collection is intelligent and demanding, and the reader is well rewarded. "It was my treasure, this permanence,/ the architecture of living. Everything/ stone-true & buttressed: arc & arc & arc/ of an ancient city." These poems skirt the edge of permanence, neither afraid of risk nor taking it for granted. "Probably takes the mathematician a long way./ Says: what will occur is a ration/ of what can and will occur./ Then laughs, ruffles the feathers/ of his myna bird. Together/ they purr in arithmeticals,/ are earthward and lyrical./ Like the math man's kisses on me/ later that night. Indiscriminate./ What we can't count." A challenging, entertaining volume; recommended for all contemporary poetry collections.ALouis McKee, Painted Bride Arts Ctr., Philadelphia
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Valerie Martinez has written an extraordinary book: these poems are expansive, surprising, intelligent; her subjects are as alive as her language. Her willingness to take risks is uncommon, and so is her compassion; she doesn't shy away from pain, and she lives in the poet's task of praise. -- Jean Valentine, judge
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If you want to settle in and read poetry that is provocative, intelligent, and vivid--poetry that keeps you thinking, this is the book.
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How I dream, it opens: I have the bruised legs of that girl with baskets, soft peaches for my mouth. Read the first page New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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