Blue Lash
Author | : James Armstrong |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 2006 |
ISBN-10 | : UOM:39015064680088 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Download or read book Blue Lash written by James Armstrong and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Blue 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.