
Touching Distances - Diary Poems
Anne Cluysenaar(Author)
Cinnamon Press
Published on 28. March 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-1-909077-18-8 (ISBN)
Description
In this most engaging collection of 'diary poems', Anne Cluysenaar moves through two years of life, 2010-2012, with the volume opening and closing in December. Winter seems exactly right as a frame for these poems, given the questions posed about death and life's chancy transient nature that trickle through the collection. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
Reviews / Votes
From the outset, the poems display a keen sense of journeying - not so much literally travelling over distances, but, rather, journeying inwardly through past, present and imagined future experiences, probing boundaries and wondering at the permeability of selves, so crucially a part of 'the mystery of being'. On the loss of a close friend, she writes: 'Your shadow beside me perhaps, in the fold/of a different universe' ('June 23'). In the same poem, she likens the page she is working on as it 'darkens with criss and cross -/possibilities, rejections, choices' to the possibility of some kind of parallel existence, an idea familiar in Quantum Physics: 'I see/how the printed page can be only one/of many unprinted but no less real'.Repeatedly, there is the sense created of commonality between past humans and ourselves, and indeed, the connections between living beings don't stop at the human. The language too is invitational: accessible, I would suggest, for a wide readership, though always multi-layered and rich in meaning. -- Publisher: Cinnamon Press
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Blaenau Ffestiniog
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-909077-18-8 (9781909077188)
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