Box Of Blue Horses [Paperback]

Winner of the Gival Press Poetry Award--Lisa Graleys strange and beautiful book-length poem, Box of Blue Horses, is unlike any other poem I have read and unlike the work of any other poet I know. The richness of her language somewhat suggests Hart Cranes voyages among the adagios of his islands. But her words are more than merely beautiful.&With each of my readings of this book, Lisa Graleys Blue Horses grew richer and more powerful, which is exactly what we demand and expect of the finest poetry.John Wood For all the people who have ever closed off or tamped down some essential part of themselvesimagination, a talent, a passionand then wished to have that aspect unboxed, this book is worth examination. Here, in a cycle of 44 poems about a herd of blue horses and the personas quest to track them, poet Lisa Graley explores the crippling effects of stifling creative impulses as well as the tensions, costs, and joys involved in living an unfettered life. Box of Blue Horses is a meditation on the fear of creativity. But it is a meditation in the form of a story about magnificent blue horses, inspired, in part, by the blue horse paintings of Franz Marc. Stylistically, the volume is an experimental blurring of genres, having at its heart the musicality of lyric poetry while incorporating the complex characterization and narrative story arc you might find in a novel.