Spells for Not Dying Again
Subtitle: Poems
Publisher: Eastern Washington University Press
Published: June 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9780910055307
Subjects: Works by individual poets: from c 1900 -; American Contemporary Poetry; English; Poetry; USA; American - General
Description: With the glyphs of ancient Egypt shadowing the voice and temperament of a fin de siecle Californian, this remarkable poet has written a sequence of poems which are exactly what the title indicates, enchantments by which we avert the re-living of experiences too painful to keep contemplating. Ironically, of course, it is only by such contemplation that these "spells" achieve their great potency.

Those who read and re-read these poems (few would read them just once) must find themselves, each time, purged in spirit as the rituals from the Book of the Dead effected their catharsis on Diana O'Hehir's ancient precursors.