Author : Brenda Hillman
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819572042
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Loose Sugar by : Brenda Hillman
Download or read book Loose Sugar written by Brenda Hillman and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loose Sugar is an alchemical manuscript disguised as a collection of poems, or vice versa. Either way, the primal materials of which this book is comprised -- love, sex, adolescence, space-time, depression, post-colonialism, and sugar -- are movingly and mysteriously transmuted: not into gold, but into a poet's philosopher's stone, in which language marries life. Structurally virtuosic, elaborate without being ornate, Loose Sugar is spun into series within series: each of the five sections has a dual heading (such as "space / time" or "time / work") in which the terms are neither in collision nor collusion, but in conversation. It's elemental sweet talk, and is Brenda Hillman's most experimental work to date, culminating in a meditation on the possibility of a native -- and feminine -- language.