Grief Sweat

By Jody Alieson and Jody Aliesan

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0913089192
• ISBN13: 9780913089194
• Release Date: May 1991
• Publisher: Broken Moon Press
• Length: 79 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.3" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Solid poetry

Jody Aliesan's poetry builds its force on distilled language and solid imagery. By distilled language, I mean that she cuts any unnecessary word - that every word carries meaning essential to the poem. By solid imagery, I mean imagery that immediately rings true as an image as opposed to images that you must mull over before understanding.In Grief Sweat, Jody Aliesan has included prose poems, a form she uses unfrequently - but she easily proves her mastery of the form. The collection includes three Coyote the trickster poems as well as Christian poems on Candlemas and Good Friday. In each of them, the poet writes as one who has fully internalized the images before writing - you never have the feeling of pretention or workshop exercise. A favorite is "traveler" which begins: " for two nights after you stepped out of time / I set out food and water in my best bowls / left them on stones with sea shells cornmeal / to say goodbye ask guides to lead your feet ...."