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LILY POETRY REVIEW
01 / 2026
9781957755625
Inglés

Sinopsis

The poems in Barbara CarlsonâÇÖs Current take us under the surface into what lives below and just to the side of the material world.áHer words do that miraculous thing of leading us to the edge of the unsayable, a 'higher stillness' full of wonder.áCarlson can move with the apparent ease of an aerialist from an abandoned nest, to a ruined mansionâÇÖs broken windows, to the centuries pressed into rock-each image becoming part of the next and enlarging the whole.áThis is a book of transformations-not loud splashy ones, but the deeper, more quiet ones that come out of silence and the astute attention that Simone Weil calls prayer, or Carlson herself calls the 'windless unseen light that opens us within.' Whether on a Roman street or walking alongside a bog near her home, Carlson gives us a place 'for the soul to lie down and be gathered.'áIn our way too transactional world, these poems are crucial, their currents carry us back to mystery, to the immensity of life, until 'whatever it is that separates us fades away.'áá--Betsy Shollá author of As if a Song Could Save You

PVP
15,35