Ventriloquy
By: Athena Kildegaard
Publisher: Tinderbox Editions
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Red Wing, Minnesota
Language: eng
Number of pages: 91
ISBN-13: 9781943981014
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Poetry; Collections; American Poetry; Minnesota authors; Women authors; Poésie; Écrits de femmes
Description: "Ventriloquy brings together four poem sequences that throw the author's voice in different directions. "Garden of Tongues, Garden of Eyes" sings, in formally similar poems, of many flowers through imagined myth and stories. The poems in "Divination," also formally similar, consider whether it's possible to divine characters through action. A third sequence of formally loose poems treats human desire, foible, and obsession through imagined saints--the saint of big data, the oil saint, the citizen saint, the sorry saint, and others. A final sequence of short prose poems depicts still life paintings and how they point away from the stilled objects on display out to a beautiful and imperfect world. Sometimes lyrical, sometimes surreal, Ventriloquy explores human longing for control, wonder, and meaning."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Poems.
Table of contents: title: Garden of Tongues, Garden of Eyes; title: Saints, contrary and futile (I); title: Divination; title: Saints, contrary and futile (II); title: Still life with universe.