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What is Girl at the Window : Poems about?

Pinkie Gordon Lane, Louisianas poet laureate, has created in Girl at the Window a volume of poetry stitched together by love of place, love of language, and love of family, a volume both intimate and generously welcoming. The logic of the poems is lyrical, rather than narrative, but this poets lyric is large enough to include a five-year-old childs memory of violence, a trip to the bootleggers with a father likened to Ulysses, and in a prose poem, memories of a mother who tumbled around in the tight little from of a house in North Philadelphia, guarding its walls fiercely, as if they belonged to the Smithsonian. Her eye is unflinching, but through precision of language and daring emotional leaps, Lane locates beauty even within troubling prospects. Take, for example, a stanza from a suite of poems about the city of Baton Living in Baton Rouge is like living in the hollow of nowhere. It is like disappearing into the night, like darkness, like sun, like beauty, like song, like knowing you are surrounded only by your self, like pouring your loneliness into a great pool of light. The poems of family and friendship are just as strong in their ability to embrace and celebrate paradox. Im

Author

Pinkie Gordon Lane

Publisher

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press

Published

1991

Language

EN

ISBN

9780807117149

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities