De los Santos is acutely conscious of all that interferes with the realization of this desire: the brutalities of illness, the transfigurations of age, our readiness to respond to the body as seen object rather than active sentient subject. Even the very passion for language that brings these poems to life is a risk, and in the poem "Io's Gift," the mythical nymph Io laments, "A woman made of words is milkweed, bound to rattle open, scatter, and be lost."
In From the Bones Out, loss, doubt, and conflict engender poems of lucidity and compassion—amounting to empathic verbal gestures—that build connections between women, as well as between women and men, and that seek to illuminate the simple elusive fact that the world is full of lives, each real, each different from the other. The compassion the poems express in sometimes strictly formal, always shapely, lines and stanzas is what gives this collection its grace and moral urgency.
De los Santos is acutely conscious of all that interferes with the realization of this desire: the brutalities of illness, the transfigurations of age, our readiness to respond to the body as seen object rather than active sentient subject. Even the very passion for language that brings these poems to life is a risk, and in the poem "Io's Gift," the mythical nymph Io laments, "A woman made of words is milkweed, bound to rattle open, scatter, and be lost."
In From the Bones Out, loss, doubt, and conflict engender poems of lucidity and compassion—amounting to empathic verbal gestures—that build connections between women, as well as between women and men, and that seek to illuminate the simple elusive fact that the world is full of lives, each real, each different from the other. The compassion the poems express in sometimes strictly formal, always shapely, lines and stanzas is what gives this collection its grace and moral urgency.
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From the Bones Out: Poems
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781570033230 |
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Publisher: | University of South Carolina Press |
Publication date: | 05/01/2000 |
Series: | James Dickey Contemporary Poetry Series |
Pages: | 79 |
Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.25(d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |
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