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ISBN 13/10:1556591047 Author: Liu, Timothy
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Year: 1995
Place: Port Townsend, Washington
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Trade Paper
Condition: New
Description: Many of the poems in Liu's second collection bristle with sexual candor, but it isn't the blunt telling of interludes held in an outhouse, in a public washroom, or even the one in an 18-wheeler that makes this work remarkable. Scenes like these are not unfamiliar; there is a genre devoted to them. What distinguishes this poetry is Liu's deft handling of the graphic material, his skillful and taut braiding of it with an artful imagery and transcendent lyricism. Unsurprisingly, he's at his best when wrestling sexuality and the folly it engenders, when pinning down the animal half in well-wrought stanzas and subtle, soothing music. The effort ultimately leads to the meditative and dearly earned melancholy of one who would ask: "How have I become/this man who fell in love/with less and less?" We value the brutal insofar as it makes a book tender as this.
Title: Archipelago (Poems)
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