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Blue Lash: Poems
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Full Title:
Blue Lash: Poems
Contributors:
By (Author) James Armstrong
Publisher:
Milkweed Editions
Imprint:
Milkweed Editions
Publication Date:
20th June 2006
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
General
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Dewey:
811.54
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
88
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 228mm
Weight:
141g
Description
InBlue Lash,James Armstrong explores the way a physical place can be alchemically transformed into mental geographies.
The world of Lake Superior comes alive and expands outward in these poems: cicadas "grind their teeth/under the blue roof of August"; a quartz pebble becomes "little knuckle/petrified egg/white as a wave-cap"; a Jet Ski "revs past the dock/like a demon out of Milton." Stripping away the layer of sentimentality that often cloaks the lake, Armstrong portrays it instead as a rebuke to human arrogance, and a reminder of the sublime indifference of wild places.
