The Clever Dream of Man

By Lynn Marie Houston

The Clever Dream of Man is a book full of engaging tensions. Part indictment, part forgiveness, its energy is guided by a skilled poet who is not afraid to examine the world with precision in her aim. One important thing about this, though: some of these poems are like rifles examining a target; others are like blessings aimed at the world. What Lynn Houston shoots: a song of anger, angst, and mercy. The target she hits: us. But instead of bleeding from it, we become a little more alive. -BJ Ward, Jackleg Opera: Collected Poems Lynn Houston's poems are serious and sexy, uncompromising and rich. Her sure eye captures a world where swans move with an "awkward gait not made for earth" and humans, too, traverse the planet simultaneously mired and on the wing. Houston writes of those who have known grief, yet whose travels "in this topography of loss" yield indefatigable hope. In her refreshingly quirky world, appliances speak like sages, and Lilith, Persephone and Barbie get in some last words. Deeply grounded in the complex primacy of human experience, The Clever Dream of Man is a vital and beautiful collection. -Catherine Doty, Momentum

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692487956
• ISBN13: 9780692487952
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Aldrich Press
• Length: 54 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.1" x 6.0"