BLACK DRUM [Hardcover]

ENID SHOMER (Author)

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Shomer, author of This Close to the Earth (1992), is both soothingly melodic and powerfully syncopated. This bred-in-the-line push-and-pull is also echoed in her metaphors and subject matter as she adroitly mixes and matches the sacred and the profane, the classical and the casual. Her strongest poems, as with most poets, are her most personal; in this case, elegies and rants (to improvise on one of her titles) for her tough grandfather, horse track habituefather, sister lost to cancer, and aphasic mother. Shomer meets grief like an old dance partner, finding just the right beat and sway to bring even the saddest of songs to a buoyant conclusion. Elsewhere, she fluently interprets the paintings of Gustav Klimt and Balthus, venting a half-angry sensuality, then writes of fish and birds, sea, sky, and land with an ever-humanizing eye. Donna Seaman

Product Details

• Hardcover: 72 pages
• Publisher: University of Arkansas Press; First Edition edition (August 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1557284946
• ISBN-13: 978-1557284945
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,127,175 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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