Blue Lash
Poems
1st ed.
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Author
Publication
2006 - Milkweed Editions, Minneapolis, USA, Minnesota
Language
English
Word Count
22,000 words, Guess
Page Count
88 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3411301M
- ISBN-139781571314246
- ISBN-101571314245
- OCLC Control Number61694790
- OCLC Control Numberbluelash00arms
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2005027356
- LibraryThing2473934
- Goodreads1590511
Classifications
- DDC811/.54
- LCCPS3551.R4676 B58 2006
Description
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.
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Genres
- Poetry.
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