Swensen and Cole’s Goest

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Alice James Books (paperback, 2004)

Publisher Marketing: Treating subjects from landscape to sculpture to a 19th-century technical encyclopedia, the poet is fascinated with light, glass, mirrors, flame, ice, mercury–things transparent, evanescent, impossible to grasp. Likewise Swensen’s lyrics, which, with elliptical phrasing and play between visual and aural, change the act of seeing–and reading–offering glimpses of the spirit (or ghost) that enters a poem where the rational process breaks down.

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