false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173740297m/320991.jpg 320991 1 <P>Haunting and spare, <I>The Wind, Master Cherry, The Wind </I>is obsessed with fate's fickle nature. Propelled by internal rhyme, these lyric poems draw on fairy tales and fables, stories from the Bible and from Carlo Collodi's <I>Pinocchio</I>, their characters blown hither and thither by mythic winds-but -inevitably, toward an awareness of mortality.</P><P><B>Inside the Dog-Fish</B></P><P>Wide as the church, the sea, the cavern, <BR>hard as a rock, a tree, a geyser, tight <BR>as the spot of birth, hot as the furnace, <BR>serpent, witch, plain as the ego, primitive, <BR>tomb, loose as a swallow's whirling torso, <BR>fiery vertebra-madre terribile, mother <BR>of agony, atony, urge, providing a passage, <BR>a sabbath, excuse, symbol of charm <BR>gone darkly sour, emotional windbag <BR>pricked by the light of the luna cornuta, <BR>spitting up trinkets and bottles of rum, <BR>and pages of books, and chunks of men. <BR></P><P>"Mark Strand describes Edward Hopper's work as being informed by two imperatives, one that urges us to continue and the other that compels us to stay. Such is the experience of reading <I>The Wind, Master Cherry, The Wind</I>, Larissa Szporluk's demanding and brilliant new book: we are both urged -forward and held back by its mysterious intellection. -Szporluk's work is about meaning: what can be known and what cannot be, what can be divulged and what must be withheld. <I>The Wind, Master Cherry, The Wind</I> is fraught with such taut pleasures. This is poetry both luscious and rigorous."-Lynn Emanuel</P> 311727 1 9 2003 The Wind, Master Cherry, The Wind total:42|5:8|4:17|3:13|2:3|1:1| 42 154 56 1 5 0 false false Sun Aug 05 16:26:34 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 05 16:27:05 -0700 2007 0 0 false false Mon Sep 07 08:32:30 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 08:32:32 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Aug 14 11:52:02 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 11:52:02 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Jul 24 02:27:57 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 02:27:57 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Jun 18 19:29:13 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 19:29:13 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat May 02 23:43:15 -0700 2009 Sat May 02 23:43:15 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Apr 28 15:04:43 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 28 15:04:46 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Apr 06 12:34:03 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 12:34:05 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sun Mar 01 22:46:05 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 22:46:05 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jan 28 09:52:04 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 09:52:04 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Dec 22 14:24:14 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 14:24:19 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Tue Aug 12 11:14:06 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 12 11:14:10 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sat Sep 13 19:44:41 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 27 12:40:03 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 13 19:44:41 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Sun Jun 29 07:23:09 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 29 07:23:09 -0700 2008 1 0 false false Thu Jun 26 19:04:16 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 26 19:04:16 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Mon Jun 23 14:10:31 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 23 14:10:40 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Thu Jun 19 09:31:31 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 19 09:31:31 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Sat May 24 13:55:50 -0700 2008 Sat May 24 13:55:50 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Mon May 12 10:57:34 -0700 2008 Mon May 12 10:59:48 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Wed Apr 16 13:02:03 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 16 13:02:03 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=320991