POETRY
SERIES
ARIADNE'S ISLAND
Molly
Bendall
/
72
pp.
$19.95 cloth (1-881163-39-3)
$11 .95 paper (1-881163-40-7)
In Molly Bendall's gorgeous new book,
Ariadne's Island,
the contempo–
rary moment and Ariadne and Theseus' mythic moment oj "Pain and
Departure" are driven together. Out oj that collision issues
a
world
jagged, askew. and ravishing.
Ariadne's Island
is
a
"house oJshimmer–
ing water" in which time, love, and departure dodge and circle, slippery
as
fish. What endures is the presiding Jorce oj
a
woman 's voice:
a
current that cuts the vacancies oj desertion into Jorm. This is
a
brilliant
book: glittering and intelligent.
-Lynn Emanuel
In
Ariadne's Island.
Molly Bendall sustains
a
mythos oj absolute imme–
diacy.
The
weather is alive, and the world showsJorth in every gesture oj
syllable and sea. But there is
more. These poems propose
and prove the
uncontrollable embodiment ojperfect loves. "I'm pulled into petals and
I'm
surprisedjI welcome it so."
Ariadne's Island
welcomes vision home to its
best world.
This
is
a
wonder book.
-Donald Revell
GENDER STUDIES
Jeffrey
Skinner
89 pp.
$19.95 cloth (1-881163-37-7)
$11.95 paper (1-881163-38-5)
Jeffrey Skinner's new book-his best yet-is powered by
a
deep bittersweet
nostalgia.
a
wry skeptical intelligence. and
a
canny sense ojhumor-all oj
which he uses to take
aim at
what is fleeting and tenuous. what is lost and
passing away.
Gender Studies
is
a
literary accomplishment.
a
humane
achievement.
-Edward Hirsch
Jeffrey Skinner describes
a
diJficult middle state between rising and
Jalling . in which we tread air and
are
held in the eloquent suspension oj
Jeeling asJorm Life's gravity weights these poems-addiction, madness,
suicide. and the lesserJailures and catastrophes to which we all succumb.
But levity is here too-love. Jamily .
art.
the sense oj the absurd. even
memory. that gnawed bone.
The
poetJeels the lure oJthe manic's romance,
but unlike Lowell
or
Berryman. he chooses, anew with each
poem.
an
heroic sobriety.
-Bonnie Costello
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