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Earliest
Worlds
ELENI SIKELIANOS
“With
ferocity and imagination, Sikelianos takes apart the
skeleton of ‘real life.’ She directs us, surprise
in each line, to return to the unconscious, to the fierce,
absolute sign, out of whose nourishing hand her poetry
advances.” — Barbara Guest
“.
. . an original and beautiful poetry, always discovering
its own grammar and name, its own secrets. One is delighted
to be using the word ‘original.’ The poetry
comes from her and not others: it is incomparable.”
— Alice Notley
The
velocity of language unearths our most thinking, feeling,
erotic selves in this powerful and innovative collection.
The real and the imagined, waking life and dream, the
simple and the complex, home and abroad, earth and space,
the monosyllables of emotion and the polysyllables of
science, work together and play together in Eleni Sikelianos’s
poetry with a wonderful elasticity and verve. It is
a pleasure" - Lydia Davis
This impressive diptych by a major new voice in poetry begins with
Blue Guide,
a poem cycle of meditations on light and dark, probing
the opposing/complementary nature of these universal
principles and their manifestation through words.
In Of Sun, Of History, Of Seeing,
the oracular power of language fuels the journey between
constellations shimmering above and the mind shimmering
in response below, between phenomenology and phenomena.
Sikelianos says, "I am interested in the absolute
ferocity of poetry, in our wild, eccentric human selves
and animal and mineral planet, untainted by but interacting
with socializing forces."
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