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With sensuous diction and a dead-on voice remarkable for its emotional honesty, these poems combine a reverence for beauty with the need for psychological truth. The stakes are high in these poems; the drive toward the emotional core exhilarating. Bristling with imagery that gains its brilliance through its down-to-the-core connections to an inner life, Joan Houlihan takes us on a wild and profoundly satisfying poetic journey, with a sound and gorgeous fury signifying everything along the way.
With sensuous diction and a dead-on voice remarkable for its emotional honesty, these poems combine a reverence for beauty with the need for psychological truth. The stakes are high in these poems; the drive toward the emotional core exhilarating. Bristling with imagery that gains its brilliance through its down-to-the-core connections to an inner life, Joan Houlihan takes us on a wild and profoundly satisfying poetic journey, with a sound and gorgeous fury signifying everything along the way.
from: "Winifred is Listening":
I am dropping my objects
from a greater height:
Spoon. Needle. Belt.
Blame it on having my fingers pulled straight.
An addiction to hearing things hit.
Blame my eye, where a small eclipse floats.
Providing a context for the poems, Ms. Houlihan’s first five critical essays in the Boston Comment series, already known by many through Web del Sol and Arts and Letters Daily, are collected here.
from: I=N=C=O=H=E=R=E=N=T: On Language Poetry
"Armed with an inexhaustible talent for rationalizing their poetic incoherence, Language Poets formed along the roots of traditional poetry like fungi, sprouting a twisted tendril called ‘The New Sentence.’ Of course, this new sentence was not really a sentence at all (further evidence of how meanings aren't necessary to the words they come with)."
From the Publisher
Joan Houlihan has already garnered a following for her dark-edged, emotionally stunning poetry and for her witty and hard-hitting "Boston Comment" series on contemporary poetry. This spectacular debut delivers both poetry and essays and is among the first books launching Del Sol Press, a new and cutting-edge independent press from Web del Sol.
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