Title: Blue Hour
Subtitle: Poems
First published: 2003
Description: *Blue Hour* is an elusive book, because it is ever in pursuit of what the German poet Novalis called 'the [lost] presence beyond appearance.' The longest poem, 'On Earth,' is a transcription of mind passing from life into death, in the form of an abecedary, modeled on ancient gnostic hymns. Other poems in the book, especially 'Nocturne' and 'Blue Hour,' are lyric recoveries of the act of remembering, though the objects of memory seem to us vivid and irretrievable, the rage to summon and cling at once fierce and distracted.
Subjects: Poetry, American poetry, Women authors, American women authors, Poetry (poetic works by one author)
LC classification: PS3556.O68 B58 2003