Antidote for Night (American Poets Continuum Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.56 (593 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1938160819 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 104 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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(Sept.)\n . When all words in California/ slide into the sea, hunger will be the last to fall," she writes, her lines unhinging the region's secrets through memories of everyday people—her working-class father, her late mother, and the women and men who journey to California only to brutally fail. De La O demonstrates deft control through a sense of restraint—in terms of both narrative and melodic rhythm—that is noticeable in her enjambment, and she creates tension via selective disclosures of information: "Did I mention I'm afraid of the dark?" Drawing from the symbolic imagery of the corvid, De La O parallels the haunting quality of the insatiable bird through her portrayal of women: "That night I felt a bird enter and sink down/ through me, the bi
WINNER OF THE 2015 ISABELLA GARDNER POETRY AWARDSet in present-day Southern California, Antidote for Night is a heartbreak lyric, a corrido, a love song to California's city lights and far-flung outskirts—the San Diego backcountry, the Central Valley, the Inland Empire, and the Mojave Desert. She has taught Spanish-speaking children in Los Angeles and Ventura County for thirty years.. Marsha de la O's voice is a kind of free jazz, musically rich with LA noir and the vastness of metropolitan Southern California.Marsha de la O's Black Hope won the New Issues Prize from the University of Western Michigan and an Editor's Choice Award
Flash Review for Antidote for Night Richard C. Newsham II Marsha de la O is THE poet of desert cities and creatures. Her new Antidote for Night journeys through a liminal Danteworld of dystopian miracles. Its three canticas bring prayers for deliverance, transit through death and (cuidado) release. In these high-craft nocturnes, psalms and elegies: neon hieroglyphs, red snake highways and green metro-glow block the night sky’s beehive clustering of stars. Dry channels clamor for rain, or a breath of water, the way verbs pine for nouns, but instead get furnaces of wild. Five Stars Amazon Customer A darker sexier Mary Oliver.