Orchidelirium

by Deborah Landau

Poetry. Winner of the 2003 Anhinga Prize for Poetry, selected by Naomi Shihab Nye. "You'll find a stunning cleanliness of movement and image in these delicious, evocative, sexy poems. The energy, wit and insight carried me strongly along. Hooray for a writer who can weave presence and absence, longing and loss of longing, into a tapestry of language as rich, honest, and compelling as this." Naomi Shihab Nye"

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1934695343
• ISBN13: 9781934695340
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Anhinga Press
• Length: 80 Pages

Customer Reviews

pleasant surprise

Sometimes, readng as much contemporary poetry as I do, I feel like one of the old orchid hunters--looking through the jungle for the rare flowers. Orchidelirium is a found orchid: it's a lovely, surprising read fusing narrative and lyricism. Landau is a fine fine poet, and she knows how to find the right balance, make the right gestures with language and line, with image and rhythm, to make us read on.

moving, brilliant, poetry that's a great read!

This is the best first book of poetry I have read. It manages to be "poetic" and compulsively readable. Kudos. We need people asking these tough questions and finding brilliantly open-ended answers--this book heartens me.