Earliest Worlds: Two Books Blue Guide and of Sun, of History, of Seeing

By Eleni Sikelianos

Book Overview

The velocity of language, the ferocity of poetry unearth our most thinking, feeling, erotic selves in this powerful debut.

This impressive debut of a major new voice in poetry begins with Blue Guide, a poem cycle of meditations on light and dark, probing theopposing/complementary nature of these universal principles and their manifestation through words. "In Of Sun, Of History, Of Seeing," the oracular power of language fuels the journey between constellations shimmering above and the mind shimmering in response below, between phenomenology and phenomena. Sikelianos says, "I am interested in the absolute ferocity of poetry, in our wild, eccentric human selves and animal and mineral planet, untainted by but interacting with socializing forces."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566891140
• ISBN13: 9781566891141
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Coffee House Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 10.0"