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Calle Florista
Calle Florista
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This World and That One Sometimes you defy it,
I am not that, watching a stranger
cry like a dog when she thinks she's alone
at the kitchen window, hands forgotten
under the running tap.
The curtains blow out, flap the other side of the sill.
In you one hole fills another,
stacked like cups.
You remember your hands. Connie Voisine's third book of poems centers on the border between the United States and Mexico, celebrating the stunning, severe desert landscape found there. This setting marks the occasion as well for Voisine to explore themes of splitting and friction in both human and political contexts. Whose space is this border, she asks, and what voice can possibly tell the story of this place? In a wry, elegiac mode, the poems of Calle Florista take us both to the edge of our country and the edge of our faith in art and the world. This is mature work, offering us poems that oscillate between the articulation of complex, private sensibilities and the directness of a poet cracking the private self open--and making it vulnerable to the wider world.
Author: Connie Voisine
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 10/20/2015
Pages: 88
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.20d
ISBN: 9780226295329
I am not that, watching a stranger
cry like a dog when she thinks she's alone
at the kitchen window, hands forgotten
under the running tap.
The curtains blow out, flap the other side of the sill.
In you one hole fills another,
stacked like cups.
You remember your hands. Connie Voisine's third book of poems centers on the border between the United States and Mexico, celebrating the stunning, severe desert landscape found there. This setting marks the occasion as well for Voisine to explore themes of splitting and friction in both human and political contexts. Whose space is this border, she asks, and what voice can possibly tell the story of this place? In a wry, elegiac mode, the poems of Calle Florista take us both to the edge of our country and the edge of our faith in art and the world. This is mature work, offering us poems that oscillate between the articulation of complex, private sensibilities and the directness of a poet cracking the private self open--and making it vulnerable to the wider world.
Author: Connie Voisine
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 10/20/2015
Pages: 88
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.20d
ISBN: 9780226295329
About the Author
Connie Voisine is associate professor of English at New Mexico State University. She is the author of two previous books of poems: Rare High Meadow of Which I Might Dream, also published by the University of Chicago Press; and Cathedral of the North. She lives in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
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