Bivouac
Laura Solomon
62 pp., paperback, ISBN
#0-9777698-1-7
$12.95 (click image to purchase)
Lush,
seductive, visceral - adjectives perhaps overused in book descriptions
these days. Not when it comes to Bivouac. Laura Solomon charts a
course through language and global landscapes so tremulous, so sinewy, one
is left with little choice but to be pulled into her "glad contagion."
Nominated for a 2003 Massachusetts Center for the Book Award.
"In Bivouac, Solomon's poems of hope and heartache break and
reconvene endlessly ... recalling Stevens's oceanic undulations, her
meditations create complex weather systems of language as their true work
of culture, politics, and philosophy ebbs and flows." - Tessa
Rumsey
"At once sensuous and stringent, necessitous and playful, these poems are
willing to test the limits of the lyric in the service of a higher calling:
the echo-location of the indicted self within a 'trampoline topography'
where consumption is the order of the day ... as deft as it is compelling."
- Cort Day
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