Black Series
Author: Sheck, Laurie
ISBN: 9780375709654
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 04 Mar 2003
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback / softback
In her remarkable i>Black Series/i>, Laurie Sheck turns the ordinary world inside out and shows us its glittering seams. Her long, elegantly quizzical lines convey a haunted vision of human striving which is in part an elaboration on our daily reality, and in part a fantastic departure from it. "I can almost taste the glassy air," she writes. "Where are the birds in it, / wings lifting as currents buffet them like echoes, bright / chaos of atomized instances . . . ?" Roaming freely in the shifting landscape of the imagination, Sheck delivers an inner life that is just as vivid as what we see around us; at the same time, she shows us what we see in a new light, bringing illumination even to darkness-br>br>It's the black night that wakes in me, br>so dominant, so focused.br>And then a car goes by and I think, br>"I'm in the world,"br>tires kicking up gravel from the dust.br>What does the orange hawkweed do br>inside this dark-its radiancebr>secretive but not extinguished?br>br>To read this collection is to discover at every turn that secretive but undeniable radiance, and a language that is both riveting and distinctive.
ISBN: 9780375709654
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 04 Mar 2003
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback / softback
In her remarkable i>Black Series/i>, Laurie Sheck turns the ordinary world inside out and shows us its glittering seams. Her long, elegantly quizzical lines convey a haunted vision of human striving which is in part an elaboration on our daily reality, and in part a fantastic departure from it. "I can almost taste the glassy air," she writes. "Where are the birds in it, / wings lifting as currents buffet them like echoes, bright / chaos of atomized instances . . . ?" Roaming freely in the shifting landscape of the imagination, Sheck delivers an inner life that is just as vivid as what we see around us; at the same time, she shows us what we see in a new light, bringing illumination even to darkness-br>br>It's the black night that wakes in me, br>so dominant, so focused.br>And then a car goes by and I think, br>"I'm in the world,"br>tires kicking up gravel from the dust.br>What does the orange hawkweed do br>inside this dark-its radiancebr>secretive but not extinguished?br>br>To read this collection is to discover at every turn that secretive but undeniable radiance, and a language that is both riveting and distinctive.
