Surprise is an element that Sarah Gorham uses with a masterful touch: subtle revelations rather than heavy-handed twists. She crafts her images as framed paintings in which you suddenly realize there is another layer behind the landscape that the surface appears to hold. In
The Tension Zone a stillborn child questions its death; a daughter defaces her mother's book of Emily Dickinson poems; thought, as an embodied being, promises tearless objectivity—and brings betrayal. These poems bear a strength that will not let us look away from the brilliance of Gorham's insights.Co-winner of 1995 Four Way Books Award.
SARAH GORHAM is a poet and publisher who currently resides in Louisville, Kentucky; wh she is the founder of Sarabande Books (in 1994), and also the wife of poet Jeffrey Skinner. she won the Carolyn Kizer Award from Poetry Northwest in 1990; grants and fellowships from The Kentucky State Arts Council, The Kentucky Foundation for Women, The Delaware State Arts Council, The Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Yaddo and MacDowell Colony; in 1983 she received the Gertrude Claytor Prize from the Poetry Society of America.
Bust of a Young Girl in the Snow When we were good we were... Immortality Birthday Doppelg?nger Prick and Twinge Electret High Tea Soakaway Salon Barbecue Ice Storm Passeggiata Scaffold for a Sonnet We Are Bold to Say Floaters The end of illness is the end of metaphor Our House Sixteen The Sacrifice After Pindar Accommodation Vague You Bother Me Envy Prayer during a Fast Red Mulberry Homesickness Floater Pounce Tin Drumming After the Accident Loose Thread Follow Sigh Detach Compost Bob White A Ha Ha Fence Pond in Winter Three Sides to the Mountain That Are Really One Juncture Lost Parting Prayer Dusk Floating City This or That On the Birth of a Daughter
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