Songs from the Astral Bestiary

By Tiff Dressen

Poetry. "Think of a deer, nervously alert, stepping into a meadow hushed with dawn light. That is the way language moves in Tiff Dressen's poetry. Every pause, every space in this work seems charged by a presence that holds both promise and danger. Addressed to a mysterious Other, these messages arrive from an interior so deep as to become exterior, "extended from your solar heart / to your sun blade." Dressen, returning to poetry's sources in the elemental, offers oracular voicings sure in their hesitation, bold in their trembling in which, with dreamlike clarity, one can "see / the whole earth / breathing." Andrew Joron"

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1889098132
• ISBN13: 9781889098135
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Lyric& Press
• Length: 64 Pages