The Errant Thread
"The Errant Thread is a volume of wonderful fits and starts: well-built narratives are suddenly interrupted by a cryptic epithalamion. Short lines ease into spacious distances and big ambling-paced arguments. An epigram suddenly grows a long neck and becomes an elegy. A lyric shears off into a one-line ending. What this means, of course, is that there is real versatility here—real verve, real invention and, above all, true craft.
This is also a collection that shows an ambition that navigates carefully between personal and impersonal. "Taking the Waters"—one of the opening poems—is an elegy of sorts. It is also a disciplined narrative, bringing the reader to sharp, bleak images of stars and water. "Sweet Alyssum", also an opening piece here, is a contrasting prose-poem.
This is a very finished book. The poems show what the reader most wants—a poet certain of the craft, a writer certain of what the craft is there to do."
—Eavan Boland, judge
$14.00
96 pages
6 x 9" paper
ISBN-13 978-1-888553-19-2
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