| Author: | Sofia M. Starnes | ISBN: | 9781609400781 |
| Publisher: | Wings Press | Publication: | September 1, 2010 |
| Imprint: | Wings Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Sofia M. Starnes |
| ISBN: | 9781609400781 |
| Publisher: | Wings Press |
| Publication: | September 1, 2010 |
| Imprint: | Wings Press |
| Language: | English |
"For those who, as Sofía Starnes puts it, hazard holiness,” the world, which must be loved, also requires a strange and luminous patience that her poems celebrate and embody, sometimes impatiently, as they seek the numinous: It is as though a household knocker rapped: Keep close to home; / Keep home. As if a distant continent crept into my room.” Her challenging lyrical explorations echo Emily Dickinson and Gerard Manley Hopkins, but her voice is all her own-jazzy, lyrical, acerbic, and mystical: A child is what she is; // not the day, / not the doubt my word careens against- // There I go now, forgetting.” You will not read a better, stranger book this year". -- Andrew Hudgins
"For those who, as Sofía Starnes puts it, hazard holiness,” the world, which must be loved, also requires a strange and luminous patience that her poems celebrate and embody, sometimes impatiently, as they seek the numinous: It is as though a household knocker rapped: Keep close to home; / Keep home. As if a distant continent crept into my room.” Her challenging lyrical explorations echo Emily Dickinson and Gerard Manley Hopkins, but her voice is all her own-jazzy, lyrical, acerbic, and mystical: A child is what she is; // not the day, / not the doubt my word careens against- // There I go now, forgetting.” You will not read a better, stranger book this year". -- Andrew Hudgins
