An Ink Like Early Twilight - Softcover

Potos, Andrea

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1910669121 ISBN 13: 9781910669129

Publisher: Salmon Poetry, 2015

Synopsis

The poems in this collection comprise a sort of pilgrimage, luminous with ancient light and heath mist, animated by the spirits of Keats and Constable, Caravaggio and Bernini. Whether in the glory of a Roman Piazza, or in those small moments with her daughter or ailing father, Potos seeks with word and image both to exalt the mysteries of existence and cut through to those seeds of truth that give meaning to all experience. Andrea Potos is the author of five poetry collections. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin with her family.

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Review

In this radiant and delicately nuanced collection, Andrea Potos, one of our most elegant practitioners of the pure lyric poem, proves herself a true descendent of the Romantics whose lives inspire her own aesthetic. Whether visiting Keats s garden or grave, exploring her Greek ancestry, praying for her elderly father s recovery from a traumatic brain injury, or observing a daughter grown up seemingly overnight, Potos is everywhere a pilgrim soul, betrothed to possibility, and collecting awe in her wake. Searching and intelligent, their quicksilver perceptions grounded in the life of the body, these poems slide through our fingers like finely-etched prayer beads, each one a hushed and holy pause where the soul rests in beauty. An Ink Like Early Twilight is a gorgeous book, and Potos exactly the poet we need to guide us in the direction of wonder. --Alison Townsend

These poems are lovely, carefully rendered expressions of how landscapes, well traveled streets, and works of art register at the emotional level. The music of the language and acuity of the vision make us glad, inciting in us a little envy perhaps, but mostly a desire to cultivate that same celebratory way of seeing and saying the world. --Max Garland

"A great example of how poetry springs from life and of how a collection of poems that race across time, space, and subject can come together into a tight cohesive braid. . . Bravo, Potos." --Mom Egg Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Salmon Poetry
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1910669121
• ISBN 13: 9781910669129
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64