Vertical Elegies 5: The Section: Sonnets (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780820325040)

Imagine moving at the speed of thought through a sense-engulfing place--a city street, carnival, airport lobby . . . or your life. You have no time to process these sounds, sights, smells, and other psycho-sensory bulges--but no way either to keep them from flooding the inner world you're forever on the verge of sorting out. That, in part, is the experience of reading these sixty-nine sonnets, each of them a multidimensional, kaleidoscopic crossroad where organic form, awareness, memory/history, intellect, and the human heart merge into specificity, like light at the end of a tunnel.

The Boston Review has said this of Truitt's poetry: "Cunning formal maneuverings provide the distance and displacement needed to rattle the teeth of syntax and alter the current beat. As a reader, one gets caught up in the frenzy. There is the pleasure of verbal abandon and the reassurance of visual control. There is the perpetually keyed-up anticipation of anything-could-happen-here." And it does.

Author: Sam Truitt
ISBN-10: 082032504X
ISBN-13: 9780820325040
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Language: English
Published: 04/28/2003
Pages: 88
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.27lbs
Size: 8.32h x 6.36w x 0.27d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/19/2003 pg. 68