Blue Lash
Subtitle: Poems
By: James Armstrong.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Minneapolis, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9781571314246
Subjects: Superior, Lake, Region -- Poetry
Genres: Poetry.
Description: In Blue Lash, James Armstrong explores the way a physical place can be alchemically transformed into mental geographies. The world of Lake Superior comes alive and expands outward in these poems: cicadas "grind their teeth/under the blue roof of August"; a quartz pebble becomes "little knuckle/petrified egg/white as a wave-cap"; a Jet Ski "revs past the dock/like a demon out of Milton." Stripping away the layer of sentimentality that often cloaks the lake, Armstrong portrays it instead as a rebuke to human arrogance, and a reminder of the sublime indifference of wild places.