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ix, 69 p. ; 23 cm ""Hooray for a writer who can weave presence and absence, longing and loss of longing, into a tapestry of language as rich, honest, and compelling as this."-Naomi Shihab Nye"Landau registers the intensities of the flesh: pleasure, desire, limitation, and, ultimately, disappearance."-Mark DotyIt is "always nighttime" in Deborah Landau's second collection-a series of linked lyric sequences, including insomniac epistolary love poems to an elusive "someone." Here is a haunted singing voice, clear and spare, alive with memory and desire, yet hounded by premonitions of a calamitous future. The speaker in this "ghost book" is lucid and passionate, even as everything is disappearing.blame the egg blame the fractured stones at the bottom of the mindblame his darkblue glare and craggy mug the bulky king of trudge and steinhow I love a masculine in my parlor his grizzly shout and weight one hundred drumsin this everywhere of blunt and soft sinking I am the heavy hollow snaredthe days are spring the days are summer the days are nothing and not dead yet Deborah Landau was educated at Stanford University, Columbia University, and Brown University, where she was a Javits Fellow

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Author

Deborah Landau (Ph.D.)

Publisher

Port Townsend, Wash.: Copper Canyon Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781556593345

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities

Rating

3.83 / 5 (63 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14