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Genre/Form: | Poetry poetry Poésie |
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Additional Physical Format: | Ebook version : |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Diane Louie |
ISBN: | 0820357901 9780820357904 |
OCLC Number: | 1143638489 |
Description: | 75 pages ; 22 cm |
Series Title: | National poetry series. |
Other Titles: | Poems. |
Responsibility: | Diane Louie. |
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'We speak in concert with what speaks through us,' Diane Louie writes toward the end of this sublime collection. And so, too, what speaks in concert with and through these poems is a desire-to articulate the overlap of meaning and perception, to discern the negative space our memories make as they settle in the mind-so unexpectedly observed, so meticulously expressed that each page brought the texture of being alive into starker relief. With Fractal Shores, Louie affords an 'awareness of awareness of awareness' that will always stay with me. In these prose poems, Diane Louie finds possibility: what the world takes, what is left. Ruled by the sentence instead of the line, the concerns of the speaker are both cosmic and earthly. Yet, the bond between the two is as unbreakable as the line. If fractals are patterns within patterns, Louie uses self-similar structures found in nature as well as in life to demonstrate how interconnected all things in the universe are. This collection is stunning in its quiet, in its reserve, in its structure: what we opened opened us. Form mirrors content: patterns within patterns, sentences within paragraphs, words within sentences, letters within words, symbols as letters. What the poem bears, bears the poem. The form is a measure of the poet's steely control, of being in the world without controlling it: we say we're not gone when we say here I am. Fire, love, humanity, nature, gender, history, geographies, a canyon of light: these poems ache with such deliberate beauty. Read more...

