The Human Abstract (National Poetry Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (669 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0140249354 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 96 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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Sensation is suspect in this land of the occult, which is exhilarating but abstruse. From Library Journal Unwilling to share her "secret form of symmetry," Willis fills this work with hermetic detritus. Flashes of imagination deflect from image to image through word sequences that attempt to evade mundane sequences of language. Like a hierophant out of H.D.'s later work, Willis teases the mind more than she stirs the heart. . There's a city without a border, a river in flames, a black iris, the "eye of God," Forest A., "crypted messages," a rosy dime, people like Azrael, a peregrine Prince, Plydictes, Qeys, Xian, and a good deal of pacing up and down to "measurean outline of significance," which results in lines like "Zero-gardening to the lees/hard-labor defunct/when I against you tether/milktooth surrogate carnivore/though lovers i
"Liz Willis: still fantastic after all these years/" according to Robert Beveridge. Elizabeth Willis, The Human Abstract (Penguin, 1995)Elizabeth Willis is a fantastic poet, one of those holding the banner of the avant-garde in America who actually deserves to be holding it. Perhaps there is no better indicator of this than that Willis' The Human Abstract is one of those rare beasts, an American book of poetry printed after World War II released by the mighty keeper of all that is literary, Penguin. Established fans will already know (and