Diverting Angels

By Deborah Diemont

Poetry. "The forty-two sonnets in Deborah Diemont's new collection, DIVERTING ANGELS, combine grace with a wildness that embraces leaping connections, which in turn generate meaning in surprising ways. The tension produces alchemy possible only in a strong container, and here I refer not only to the form, but to the intelligence from which these poems spring. There are cloudbursts and sudden jungle sounds, traceries of buried cities, artifacts in the DNA, evidence of unheard music, and emptiness that 'exacts a transformation.' Diemont's vision penetrates the membrane of space-time to link what-was to the present and future, and to what-might-have-been as another kind of fact known only through an act of imagination, which is also an act of courage. The exquisite wedding of sense and music evokes Emily Dickinson and Hart Crane, the paintings of Arthur Dove in which the forms we did not see in nature emerge lyrically, but also as revelations. 'Let him sing, ' says the poet. 'Let him row on the wind.' Humanity and mystery overflow in this powerful work." Paul Pines"

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933675756
• ISBN13: 9781933675756
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: DOS Madres Press
• Length: 72 Pages