It Blows You Hollow (The New Issues Press Poetry Series) - Softcover

Seuss, Diane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0932826652 ISBN 13: 9780932826657

Publisher: New Issues Poetry and Prose, 2020

Synopsis

With these dark, triumphant poems, Diane Seuss takes us on a journey through the landscape of the soul––and it’s a world full of beauty and violence in equal parts. Relentless and incantatory, these poems are charged with an almost religious intensity as Seuss looks for God’s presence in nature and sexuality. Again and again the poet confronts whatever it is that guides us through a life that is sensuous, yet exacting in its terrible cost.

Nothing is solved by the end of this book, but much is gained as the quest itself has become a victory of perfectly pitched and furious language. God’s still hidden away, but by now the natural world has evolved to replace the absence Seuss feels. In the book’s erotically charged universe, one paradoxically begins to feel a calm settle over the burned-up panorama of the soul. It Blows You Hollow is a book, rare these days, that feels as if it had to be written. Diane Seuss goes for broke.

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About the Author

Diane Seuss is the author of three collections of poetry: Pulitzer Prize-finalist Four-Legged Girl, It Blows You Hollow and Wolf Lake, White Gown Blown Open, winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry. Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2014, the Georgia Review, New Orleans Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. She is writer-in-residence at Kalamazoo College and lives in Michigan.

Edition details

• Publisher: New Issues Poetry and Prose
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0932826652
• ISBN 13: 9780932826657
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 67