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Daigon's poems are acts of noticing, exaltation and love. In straightforward language and familiar images, she takes pleasure in likenesses and delights in transformation of scale and of time. In some poems, memory reaches back to a 1930s childhood and to the lives of immigrant parents. As the edge of a quilt becomes "a trail outlining the long foothills," so generations pass on to each other the glances, gestures, objects and acts that constitute meaning. Too often Daigon's closure seems intrusive or constricting. "A single bird tests the air" is precisely observed and bears the weight of emotion, but the same bird "reminding us today is all there is" is vatic. Although her capacity for celebration and grief sometimes strains against her short lines, Diagon gently and steadfastly approaches the boundaries between the known and the forgotten, and illuminates "how we dance along the slipstream of the past."
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Daigon sang at Dylan Thomas' funeral and later collaborated with W. H. Auden on a recording of Renaissance poetry and music, but it wasn't until she started editing Poets On that she transformed herself from concert soprano to full-time poet-editor. If she still sings as well as she writes, the musical world must be saddened to have lost such a strong voice. In her fourth collection, traces of her musical background surface frequently, bringing rhythm, melody, and resonance to every poem. Her subjects are usually domestic: married women facing "a procession of cardboard moments" and watching time "drip like coffee in the percolator"; relatives standing side by side in photographs that are "slightly out of focus"; and in the sunlight, whole families wrapped "in a gauze of sleep." Without sentimentality or, conversely, bitterness, Daigon presents the family and its machinations without missing a note. Elizabeth Gunderson
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Between One Future and the Next
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Papier-Mache Press, Milford, Connecticut, USA, 1995
ISBN 10: 091894967X
ISBN 13: 9780918949677
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Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. BZ1 - A hard cover withdrawn ex-library book in good- condition with a dust jacket in very good- condition. No additional printings are indicated on the back of the title page. A tight, clean, sound copy in orange cloth covered boards with burgandy lettering on the spine with very minor overall shelf wear plus there are the usual library stamps on the top outside paper edges and title page plus the front endpaper has been removed as part of the library's withdrawal process plus the dust jacket endflaps are glued down to the inside surfaces of the boards. The dust jacket shows very, very light fading on the spine plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve plus there is the usual library label on the spine plus the endflaps are glued down to the inside surfaces of the boards. A collection of poetry that explores family and community relationships. The author is a winner of the Negative Capability Poetry Competition. By the author of "A Portable Past." 116p. Size: 6.25"x9.25". Ex-Library. Seller Inventory # SCW04923
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