Invisible Bride

by Tony Tost

Book Overview

Tony Tost's exhilarating poetry debut defies conventional description. Like a fantastic film, a feverish delirium, or a dream state, these prose poems use an experimental lexicon of imagery that goes... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807129658
• ISBN13: 9780807129654
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
• Length: 57 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Escaping the Tree

Martin Heidegger writes of the poet as being able to provide for humans a picture of what Being is by making language speak the unspoken. Invisible Bride, in all it's muted exhiliration of a voice(s) both human and majestic embedded in the palpable reaches of language does just that: it shows that somehow we are stuck inside a tree trunk with arms flailing trying to describe what exists outside; the outside being the world we inhabit, but never grasp. Only a poet could do this and Tost has shown his acumen of humanity superbly by speaking the unspoken. Tost has fashioned a bridle around language in which to champion the gross richness that chooses to hide instead of reveal. He leads the reader to darkened roads and, on occasion, refreshing streams in search of what possibly exists out there. What he finds there moves both inside and out: a blind man, children, irate mothers, a twin...etc. Coaxing the reader to tear the bark and revel in the glaring particularity of what the world is, a world once concealed is given new life. Tost has brought back the gems of this world to share and remind us that there is more than one way to escape the tree in order to see for ourselves what we are missing.

Invisible Bride

I think this is a wonderful book of poems. I hope to see more of his writings in print.I feel he did a great job.