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"My lover tells me I am like this place./ I tell him what I miss: the slap of leaves/ on skin and air that's like a damp embrace." The poems of this debut have a Cinderella-like innocence, transforming ugliness into beauty and waving the wand of well-crafted metaphor over all they encounter. The horrific suicide of a grandfather, a mother's cancer, the mourning for a stillborn child, the potential foreclosure of a neighbor's farm are all recounted with a refined clarity. Yet through it all, de los Santos manages to frame life's traumas with a voice that can seem borrowed from the Stage Manager in Our Town: "Some years/ were fair, but most were bad./ The taxes, worse than weevil, tried/ to take each dime she had." However, there are also poems, such as "Io's Gift," that evoke, through their subtlety and sensuality, the pleasures of the ever-changing consciousness of the female body: "I learned myself, bit/ by bit, or maybe I/ should say I dawned/ upon myself, a slow dawning." There are also glamorous poems, including "Supermodel," and "Perfect Dress," in which the poet indulges in herself as an object of perfect beauty: "Someone will murmur,/ `She is sublime,'/ will be precisely right, and I will step,/ with incandescent shoulders,/ into my perfect evening." In its worked simplicity, this is a first book that offers a formula of hope and clarity when confronting life's trials and tribulations. (Apr.)

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After
Amagansett
Armadillo Epithalamium
Ars Poetica For Intemperate Climates
Because I Love You
Bible Stories
Big Bend
Embodiment
Enough
Family Plots
The Fern
First Light
For A Stillborn
For Susan
For Tia Josefina
Heaven
Housework
'i Knew A Woman':she Responds
Inverse Epiphany In A Neiman Marcus Dressing Room
Io's Gift
Land
Lucille
Luray Caverns: The Discovery
Milagros Mourns The Queen Of Scat
Monologue Of One Returned
Most Of What I Have
October: One Year Later
Oil
Oregon
Perfect Dress
Poem For A Birthday
Remission
Supermodel
Tea
Wiglaf
Woman Reading
Women Watching Basketball
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 96 pages
  • Publisher: University of South Carolina Press (April 1, 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1570033234
  • ISBN-13: 978-1570033230
  • Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.3 x 0.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #872,991 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Deft Grace, June 26, 2000
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Lightness and grace permeate the words in this book. Throughout, the reader can sense a warm heart and compassionate eye. A joy to read for observations on family, on history, on nostalgia, on desire...the poems create a beautiful presence and experience for the attentive reader. I thank the poet for her words.
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Octavio Paz said once that to read a poem is to let "words enter through our ears, appear before our eyes, disappear in contemplation." This is what Marissa de los Santos offered us. And in its various incarnations. In her poems, the writer also allows the words to enter our eyes, appear in contemplation and to never disappear from within.
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5.0 out of 5 stars from the bones out, September 24, 2000
These are rare, beautiful poems. Her images breathtaking. I love this book.
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This small collection of Marisa de los Santos' poetry is beautiful, poignant and contemplative. She speaks to women the world over and writes in an attainable and readable style... Read more
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