Calle Florista
88 pages
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5-1/2 x 8-1/2
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© 2015
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
Calle Florista
As Well As You Can
The Internal State of Texas
We Are Crossing Soon
Rules for Drought
What Is True Is You’re Not Here
Say Uncle
New World
I admit that I believe ideas exist regardless
Annunciation
Pilgrims
Testament
Summertime
You Will Come to Me across the Desert
Gravid
Midnight in the House
This World and That One
After the First Road
After
Two Years in That City
Once
Psalm to Whoever Is Responsible
A world’s too little for thy tent, a grave too big for me
Ambidextrous
Prayer of the St. of the Hottest Night in Las Cruces
To the Crickets Which Sing in Unison
Ubi sunt qui ante nos fuerunt?
RIP
The Altar by George Herbert
Spanish Language in Mexico, 1993
In the Shade
Unfinished Letter to Death
The Self after Modernism
Notes
Calle Florista
As Well As You Can
The Internal State of Texas
We Are Crossing Soon
Rules for Drought
What Is True Is You’re Not Here
Say Uncle
New World
I admit that I believe ideas exist regardless
Annunciation
Pilgrims
Testament
Summertime
You Will Come to Me across the Desert
Gravid
Midnight in the House
This World and That One
After the First Road
After
Two Years in That City
Once
Psalm to Whoever Is Responsible
A world’s too little for thy tent, a grave too big for me
Ambidextrous
Prayer of the St. of the Hottest Night in Las Cruces
To the Crickets Which Sing in Unison
Ubi sunt qui ante nos fuerunt?
RIP
The Altar by George Herbert
Spanish Language in Mexico, 1993
In the Shade
Unfinished Letter to Death
The Self after Modernism
Notes
Review Quotes
Laura Kasischke, author of The Infinitesimals
"Aristotle said that the greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor, and to be one is to be a genius. Voisine is that great thing, and that genius. Nearly every line of every poem is its own poem. She has re-visioned our most looked-at things. She brings us new ways to see, and to be. To travel through the neighborhood of this collection is to be surprised at every corner turned, but to recognize it completely. There is no greater poetic gift, or thrill."
Jacqueline Osherow, author of Whitethorn
"'The next poem I write will be better,' begins the final poem in Connie Voisine's wonderful Calle Florista. This strikes me as quite a hefty promise, since the poems in this volume are already so gratifying and surprising. They carve a marvelous spot for themselves at the crossroads of joy and regret, pathos and humor, faith and doubt, elegance and quirkiness, making the very most, not only of 'the flimsy scraps that more genuinely / compose the day' but also of the very largest concerns: 'Maybe the soul isn’t a fussy eater-- / still, it is ravenous / and expensive.'"
Carol Muske-Dukes, author of Sparrow
"In her haunting new collection Calle Florista, Voisine dances at the edge of nihilism, an imaginative and moral strategy borrowed from George Herbert, whose style of doubt and recovery she celebrates throughout the book. Her poems flirt with ugliness and with nothingness, negating the body, the street, the desert flowers, the natural world itself. Yet an astonishing, powerful affirmative lyric drive wells up: ‘the way a wren /of a word then another gives itself to a sentence.’ These remarkable poems operate like everyday miracles, driving the reader from despair to belief, word by word—into the perfect radiance of profound poetic revelation."
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