Gravida (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781884800023)

The lyrics in Sue Standing's False Horizon quietly celebrate the lust that is living, the lust that is memory. "The risks we're taking aren't really risks/ Orange trees. Umbrella Pines. Wisteria." These poems, some of which are set in the far reaches of Africa and India, argue for the primacy of the present tense, a present tense that shines erotically out from under the beautiful drapery of a manifold rich and cultural world history. Therefore, False Horizons is a book full of sensations. And yet the world remains elusive and mysterious. "In the moonlight I can see the shadow of a tree that is no longer there." Standing writes a wonderfully understated poetry about the intimacies of experience. She says, "I need a life that won't diminish."

Author: Sue Standing
ISBN-10: 1884800025
ISBN-13: 9781884800023
Publisher: Four Way Books
Language: English
Published: 04/01/1995
Pages: 188
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.08w x 0.29d