Blood Prism

By Edward Haworth Hoeppner

The poems in Blood Prism span a lifetime. Its three sections, "Memory," "Politics," and "Age," frame meditations on a violence-blotched world with reflections on the author's childhood and conclusions about a decades-long life of writing. "I'm 60 and still . . . alive in this world, with love and with its palindrome," one poem says. And the argument of the book turns on that precise puzzle: on evol, invoking as it does both evil and evolve, both human wrong and life as something more than mere survival. In a variety of styles--prose poems, standard and dislocated forms--Hoeppner uses "blood" to represent family and history, his surprising and richly imagistic language rendering the emptiness he calls imagination "into remains. Into what persists."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814251811
• ISBN13: 9780814251812
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.7" x 8.9"