Transitional Spaces (Paperback)

Paperback. Transitional Spaces is concerned with inner lives and the secret doings of damage and repair. Touching on politics, sickness, sex, art, global warming and the messages of fantasy and dream, it looks at the lost and the longed-for, and at what happens when the bonds between us rupture. Nature appears as mirror, pointer or consolation. Creativity is explored in lines that include poets, a painter, a pattern-cutter and tapestry-maker, but also in our instinctual methods of surviving trauma. Behrens does not attempt an answer, rather she maps the trackways of feeling.Never less than accomplished, never less than intriguing, the poems exhibit the kind of empirical and aesthetic care which distinguishes the best of the contemporary poetry written in the tradition thats taken William Carlos Williams infamous remark no ideas but in things as one of its key starting pointsThe High WindowBehrens here delivers an often shockingly good performance loaded with wild, unexpected insight and innovation in modes of thought and language Empty Mirror Transitional Spaces, Kate Behrenss fourth poetry collection, is concerned with inner lives and the secret doings of damage and repair. Touching on politics, sickness, sex, art, global warming and the messages of fantasy and dream, it looks at the lost and the longed-for, and at what happens when the bonds between us rupture. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…