Far Side of the Earth: Poems
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ISBN: 0618492380 / Publisher: Mariner Books, February 2005
A collection by the author of After One and The Dreamhouse features a blending of different forms and considers such topics as the Cold War era as experienced at a drive-in movie theater and the September 11 attacks as reported through ancient spells. Reprint.
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Tom Sleigh brings to his new collection his trademark intensity and craftsmanship. In these poems, small things reveal large metaphysical and historical correspondences. In "Newsreel, for instance, the entire Cold War era comes to a drive-in movie theater, as Marilyn Monroe's screen image gives way to a tale of sci-fi Armageddon. In the elegiac "New York American Spell, 2001," he combines ancient spells with reportage of terrorism. Sleigh's overarching theme is the ever-changing face of love. Like Ovid's Metamorphoses, his poems reveal the workings of eros, for good or ill, in all its public and private guises.
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