Poetry. "The graceful poems in Lee Slonimsky's new collection are those of a born naturalist gifted with urbane insights, verse assembled from careful observation and remarkable emotional investment, animated by anxiety, absorbed with precision. His engagement with the natural world--tellingly there are many birds and bees, though always alongside more sinister blackbirds, crows, and alligators--borrows strength from navigating 'terrain as gnarled and buckled as a tree.' His characters, money managers, lawyers, commodities ...
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Poetry. "The graceful poems in Lee Slonimsky's new collection are those of a born naturalist gifted with urbane insights, verse assembled from careful observation and remarkable emotional investment, animated by anxiety, absorbed with precision. His engagement with the natural world--tellingly there are many birds and bees, though always alongside more sinister blackbirds, crows, and alligators--borrows strength from navigating 'terrain as gnarled and buckled as a tree.' His characters, money managers, lawyers, commodities traders, yearn to return to a simpler, more honest way of life, perhaps return to a natural state, all the while confronting the reality that 'whirls and flashes that compose you are / mere etches in cold space.' An enchanting and thought-provoking collection."--Ernest Hilbert "In WANDERING ELECTRON, Lee Slonimsky creates a shiny braid of nature and spirit. We become eager armchair travelers as these intelligent, deeply sensuous poems act as guides to worlds within worlds--'where light weighs the most,' where a camel broods over 'stars reflected in a puddle,' and more. We are handed a Whitmanesque sense of being 'for this is the time for spinning to stop / even electrons need to nap,' and become synesthetes as we, thanks to Slonimsky, 'hear oak's true color.' WANDERING ELECTRON is a collection filled with this poet's particular magic found in snow, icicles, pine. If they are about any one thing, these poems are about a type of salvation, man not only returning to nature but remembering he is, in fact, part of nature. He lives in a stunning world where a 'gold shaft' of light becomes 'a flower in a mirror,' a sensual world where a love affair exists 'between soft misty breeze / and bark,' a spiritual world where 'church is a swath of fog,' and a startling world where an alligator stands 'upright / outside my
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Add this copy of Wandering Electron to cart. $9.75, very good condition, Sold by Dotcom liquidators / dc1 rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Fort Worth, TX, UNITED STATES, published 2014 by Spuyten Duyvil Publishing.
