![]() ![]() For the reader willing to dive under, this journey is unforgettable. On the surface his world is rendered in bright pixels of quivering light, while underneath a seamless narrative undercurrent pulls us into the mysterious depths of experience. Sea of Hooks requires, in the words of its author, an “emotional commitment. Lindsay Hill casts a magician’s spell across his Sea of Hooks (McPherson, 348 pages). So the librarian/archivist in me thrills at that.Īlphabet is brief it can easily be read at a sitting. ![]() while capturing a pirate vessel on the high sea during the. ![]() I read, rather, to continually renew my credence in the possibility of meaning and of beauty, in the face of a world that suggests rather strongly that they are only possible through self-delusion and denial.Įach of these books unflinchingly describes a world that I recognize as real, without simplifications or sentimentalization, while still finding deep stores of wonder and humor and beauty.īoth of them have an elegiac quality (for which I’ll admit a weakness), and both seem in part to be attempts to almost exhaustively catalogue experience. William Lindsay of Laurel Hill, in Fairfax county, the elder. I’m a poet, and I read not for entertainment, nor pleasure, nor even edification – though all of those may transpire and are not unwelcome. Sea of Hooks, Lindsay Hill, (McPherson & Company, 2013). You can eliminate one, if necessary, by any means you choose.Īlphabet, Inger Christensen, translated by Susanna Nied, (New Directions, 2001). I have a bad habit of bending, breaking, or ignoring rules … and so I’m sending you two book titles rather than one. ![]()
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