Reign of Snakes
Author: Wrigley, Robert
ISBN: 9780140589191
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 01 Jun 1999
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback / softback
Described by the late b>James Dickey/b> as "one of the finest new poets to come along in years," b>Robert Wrigley/b> fulfills that early promise with this, his newest collection. b>Reign of Snakes/b> is a book about desire, the soul's desire as much as the body's. As b>Jane Hirshfield/b> said of Wrigley's previous book, b>In the Bank of Beautiful Sins/b> (Penguin, 1995), "To read it is to unpeel a little further into the human, and into the wideness that holds the human--a splendid gift." b>Reign of Snakes/b> takes us to yet another level, deep into the daily devotions, "where the dark blows a kiss to night.". . . i>b>a frigid day in February and a full-grownrattlesnake curled to a comma in the middle of the middle of the just-plowed road. Ice ghost, I think, curve of rock or stubbed-off branch. But the diamonds are there, under a dust of crystals looming, impossible, summer's tattoo, the mythical argyle of evil./b>/i> --from "b>Reign of Snakes/b>"br>br>
ISBN: 9780140589191
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 01 Jun 1999
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback / softback
Described by the late b>James Dickey/b> as "one of the finest new poets to come along in years," b>Robert Wrigley/b> fulfills that early promise with this, his newest collection. b>Reign of Snakes/b> is a book about desire, the soul's desire as much as the body's. As b>Jane Hirshfield/b> said of Wrigley's previous book, b>In the Bank of Beautiful Sins/b> (Penguin, 1995), "To read it is to unpeel a little further into the human, and into the wideness that holds the human--a splendid gift." b>Reign of Snakes/b> takes us to yet another level, deep into the daily devotions, "where the dark blows a kiss to night.". . . i>b>a frigid day in February and a full-grownrattlesnake curled to a comma in the middle of the middle of the just-plowed road. Ice ghost, I think, curve of rock or stubbed-off branch. But the diamonds are there, under a dust of crystals looming, impossible, summer's tattoo, the mythical argyle of evil./b>/i> --from "b>Reign of Snakes/b>"br>br>
