By Publisher: Anhinga Press
ISBN: 0938078771
Release Date: 2004-04-10
List Price: USD 12.00
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Dana employs an astonishing range of poetic strategies to describe the pleasure and pain of this fraught moment in our history. And just as the brightly colored butterfly animates these pages, now lighting on a domestic scene, now flitting through a meditation on the nature of poetry, so Dana steps lightly "down some moonless fractal, wild refraction, unpredictable reflection." His clarity of vision and economy of means enact an exuberant encounter with the world; his vivid reading of his walk in the sun — "Alive on the breath-edge of metaphor"— is at once bracing and wise. Robert Dana is a magnificent poet.
— Christopher Merrill In this, his tenth collection of poems, Robert Dana surprises, delights, and may even momentarily confound his readers with this ambitious book which is, above all, a work of transformations. "Heaven is here, not there"— Dana says, and these poems invite us to "Dance … down this senseless, bright dingle of commingling and delicious confusions" so that we, too, can say, with the poet, "Every day I live I live forever." — Richard Holinger
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