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Bonfire Opera
Danusha Laméris
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University of Pittsburgh Press 
Belletristik / Lyrik, Dramatik
Beschreibung
Sometimes the most compelling landscapes are the ones where worlds collide: where a desert meets the sea, a civilization, no-man’s land. Here in <i>Bonfire Opera,</i> grief and Eros grapple in the same domain. A bullet-hole through the heart, a house full of ripe persimmons, a ghost in a garden. Coyotes cry out on the hill, and lovers find themselves kissing, “bee-stung, drunk” in the middle of road. Here, the dust is holy, as is the dark, unknown. These are poems that praise the impossible, wild world, finding beauty in its wake. <b>Excerpt from “</b><b>Bonfire Opera”</b> In those days, there was a woman in our circle who was known, not only for her beauty, but also for taking off all her clothes and singing opera. And sure enough, as the night wore on and the stars emerged to stare at their reflections on the sea, and everyone had drunk a little wine, she began to disrobe, loose her great bosom and the tender belly, pale in the moonlight, the Viking hips, and to let her torn raiment fall to the sand as we looked up from the flames.
Kundenbewertungen
Women African American poets, Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, Women poets, University of Pittsburgh Press, Pushcart Prize, African American poets, Santa Cruz author, Naomi Shihab Nye, Poetry award winners, 2015 Bingham University Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award, Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry, Squaw Valley Writers Workshop