The Danger is Seduction: People, Places, Possibilities (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781481058902)

Reality-based yet meditative, immediately appealing surfaces reveal surprising depths in "The Danger is Seduction" work like a kaleidoscope. Time passes. Locales change. Faces come and go. The familiar becomes strange. Strange things become familiar. But constants evolve: a search for understanding, the balm of sympathy, a subversive humor. Pat Sharpe takes us with her as she ranges the world, seeking adventure and insight from Thimpu to Timbuktu, from Darjeeling to Moscow to Santa Fe, New Mexico. In this collection she introduces potters, tea pickers, lamas, a Mexican maid with a wrenching decision to make, elusive mothers and lovers, scuba divers, demon-chasing dogs, neighbors seeking a harmonious way to co-exist. She has us riding ferris wheels, flying over Las Vegas, trekking in the rain, selling haunted old furniture, scuffing through dry leaves, sitting in meditation halls, encountering tsunami damage and, always - a unifying theme - seeking with her a home in the world, a place that satisfies intellectually and emotionally as well as physically. These are layered poems, deep poems, lyrical poems, but they start from where we are and Sharpe has an uncanny ability to speak to us vividly in our own idiom. There is mystery here, but no mystification. There is clear-sighted realism here but its companion is compassion.

Author: Patricia Lee Sharpe
ISBN-10: 1481058908
ISBN-13: 9781481058902
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 12/30/2013
Pages: 124
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.26d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2014