Sails the Wind Left Behind

by Alessandra Lynch and Cleo Qian

Book Overview

In her first collection, Alessandra Lynch deftly combines the surreal and the lyric into a striking and confident whole. At times witty, at times dreamlike, the poems revel in dense Symbolist-like imagery, juxtaposition, wordplay, and rhyme. By refusing a certain kind of transparency--direct statement and traditional allusion--Lynch excavates the shadowy region of the psyche. From a rich profusion of images emerge themes of unrealized desire, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1882295366
• ISBN13: 9781882295364
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Alice James Books
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.6"