Silkie

By Anne-Marie Cusac

Poetry. SILKIE, with its historical detail and rich sense of place, beautiful language, startling psychological acuity, is a triumph...a meditation on passion and heartbreak that enthralls and compels with its myth of the beastly human--Reginald Gibbons. Stunning, brave, and original, the poems are full of the sensuality of the body and the longing of the soul, deftly wrought to reveal a world both real and transcendent--Jesse Lee Kercheval. Cusac recounts the story of the Silkie, seals who transform into human beings...This is big poetry. Not shimmery self-consciousness. Not ineffable shrines to the quotidian. This poetry is as fundamental as rocks. It shocks with its primordial qualities and thrills with its art--Patrick Lawler.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1886976201
• ISBN13: 9781886976207
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Many Mountains Moving
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.