In her third book of poetry The Perils of Geography , Helen Humphreys charts a world that opens under the prodding and promise of language. With the wit and eye for evocative detail which gained readers for both Gods and Other Mortals and Nuns Looking Anxious, Listening to Radios, Humphreys probes the immediacy of now, the intensity of this, the residue of then. Don't be deceived by the spare appearance; her poems are resonant and full, all angles and confidence. Light falls slant across them. She maps what surrounds not ...
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In her third book of poetry The Perils of Geography , Helen Humphreys charts a world that opens under the prodding and promise of language. With the wit and eye for evocative detail which gained readers for both Gods and Other Mortals and Nuns Looking Anxious, Listening to Radios, Humphreys probes the immediacy of now, the intensity of this, the residue of then. Don't be deceived by the spare appearance; her poems are resonant and full, all angles and confidence. Light falls slant across them. She maps what surrounds not what's made still - the moving line. The line she traces connects the pull of memory and moment, open roads and winter aconite, transcendental basements and ornamental shrubbery. In Singing to the Bees, the ten poem sequence which makes up the second of three sections in Perils, she slips inside folk wisdoms, wears them with an easy grace, all flesh and wit and possibility: dancing shoes, gifted pigs, swarming bees, airplane nuns and spectre ships. These poems make superstition delicious.
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Very Good with no dust jacket. 0919626831. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY-customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. Inscribed By Author to previous owner on half-title page. Some wrinkles on edges.; Author's third collection of poetry. Inscribed: "For Leslie and Ruth, with best wishes.."; 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; Signed by Author.
