false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1220815576m/2578163.jpg 2578163 1 available for purchase, today! "As the title suggests this is a sequence of articulations on the enduring themes of loss, separation, and messy love: love is always messy. But Gardner does not indulge in the easy clichés of introspection or confession: here she conjures up an hypnotic, somnambulistic symphony of exquisite desolation. 'No man is an island' wrote John Donne but Gardner knows that is only a half truth, especially if you are a woman. Against a backdrop of the sea the breaking waters of waves and birth crash through these pages with a contradictory melancholic joy. Her island is inescapable but it has a bird and it is shot through with the vitality of colour and the colour of tenacious life. Disturbingly beautiful." --Geraldine Monk "Architecturally wild and sturdy, Gardner's book comes from a place beyond fear and despair, from a place of deep proclivity, which is where poetry becomes ancient, modern, and new." --Elizabeth Treadwell "Susana Gardner’s [lapsed insel weary] is an extended social lyric of longing that refuses isolation because the "grandmany" is all around, in ancestry and memory and books and shared future. Gardner’s is a language that recovers itself—lace re-tatted, a house rebuilt—and there is grandeur in the recovery. This is poetry full of heart and intelligence." --Carolyn Forché 2592105 2008 [ lapsed insel weary ] total:19|5:16|4:2|3:0|2:0|1:1| 19 89 80 4 2578163 0981867200 9780981867205 19 4 4.68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1220815576m/2578163.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2578163._lapsed_insel_weary_ 5 1 false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 24 18:43:56 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 24 18:45:47 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2578163 0981867200 9780981867205 19 4 4.68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1220815576m/2578163.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2578163._lapsed_insel_weary_ 5 1 false Wed Dec 03 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 30 14:07:51 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 03 08:41:05 -0800 2008
A book really is 5 stars if it makes you write pages of ramblings in your paper journal! Something about multiple palimpsests, two centers to the book, and ...more...]]> 2578163 0981867200 9780981867205 19 4 4.68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1220815576m/2578163.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2578163._lapsed_insel_weary_ 5 1 false Mon Feb 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 19:34:23 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 19:50:28 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2578163 0981867200 9780981867205 19 4 4.68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1220815576m/2578163.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2578163._lapsed_insel_weary_ 5 1 false Fri Jun 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 09 13:05:52 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 08 08:09:27 -0700 2009
Sometime we should discuss the poetics of the bracket. I'm fond of bracketed dashes [--:].]]> 2578163 0981867200 9780981867205 19 4 4.68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1220815576m/2578163.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2578163._lapsed_insel_weary_ 5 0 false Thu Oct 15 13:49:34 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 13:49:34 -0700 2009 2578163 0981867200 9780981867205 19 4 4.68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1220815576m/2578163.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2578163._lapsed_insel_weary_ 0 0 false Fri Oct 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 07:00:21 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 13:54:42 -0700 2009 2578163 0981867200 9780981867205 19 4 4.68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1220815576m/2578163.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2578163._lapsed_insel_weary_ 0 0 false Fri Oct 02 14:46:06 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 02 14:46:06 -0700 2009 2578163 0981867200 9780981867205 19 4 4.68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1220815576m/2578163.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2578163._lapsed_insel_weary_ 5 0 false Wed Sep 23 20:12:42 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 20:12:42 -0700 2009 2578163 0981867200 9780981867205 19 4 4.68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1220815576m/2578163.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2578163._lapsed_insel_weary_ 0 0 false Sat Sep 05 20:51:28 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 20:51:28 -0700 2009 2578163 0981867200 9780981867205 19 4 4.68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1220815576m/2578163.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2578163._lapsed_insel_weary_ 0 0 false Fri Jul 03 17:04:21 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 03 17:04:21 -0700 2009 2578163 0981867200 9780981867205 19 4 4.68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1220815576m/2578163.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2578163._lapsed_insel_weary_ 5 0 false Thu Jul 02 10:23:43 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 10:23:43 -0700 2009 2578163 0981867200 9780981867205 19 4 4.68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1220815576m/2578163.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2578163._lapsed_insel_weary_ 0 0 false Mon Jun 29 19:55:22 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 19:55:22 -0700 2009 2578163 0981867200 9780981867205 19 4 4.68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1220815576m/2578163.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2578163._lapsed_insel_weary_ 4 0 false Mon Jun 08 22:57:52 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 14:22:57 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 22:57:52 -0700 2009 2578163 0981867200 9780981867205 19 4 4.68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1220815576m/2578163.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2578163._lapsed_insel_weary_ 5 0 false Sun May 24 07:46:51 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 15:32:23 -0700 2009 2578163 0981867200 9780981867205 19 4 4.68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1220815576m/2578163.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2578163._lapsed_insel_weary_ 0 0 false Tue May 19 08:53:43 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 08:53:43 -0700 2009 2578163 0981867200 9780981867205 19 4 4.68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1220815576m/2578163.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2578163._lapsed_insel_weary_ 0 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun May 17 23:35:54 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 23:36:02 -0700 2009 2578163 0981867200 9780981867205 19 4 4.68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1220815576m/2578163.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2578163._lapsed_insel_weary_ 0 0 false Sun May 17 10:53:44 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 10:53:44 -0700 2009 2578163 0981867200 9780981867205 19 4 4.68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1220815576m/2578163.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2578163._lapsed_insel_weary_ 0 0 false Sat May 16 10:07:15 -0700 2009 Sat May 16 10:07:21 -0700 2009 2578163 0981867200 9780981867205 19 4 4.68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1220815576m/2578163.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2578163._lapsed_insel_weary_ 0 0 false Tue May 12 16:28:41 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 16:30:06 -0700 2009 2578163 0981867200 9780981867205 19 4 4.68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1220815576m/2578163.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2578163._lapsed_insel_weary_ 0 0 false Sat May 09 07:58:08 -0700 2009 Sat May 09 07:58:08 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2578163