Black Ice - Keys, Kerry Shawn

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Résumé :
Black Ice by Kerry Shawn Keys takes a worthy place within the deep reservoir of his published books. The book's title is a metaphor for a mirror in the title poem in a book probing the black holes of identity, the claustrophobia of self, and managing somehow to transcend both in a work both lucid and dense, cosmic and intimate, and any number of other opposing forces you can slip through the black holes of exquisitely-made poems. The poems in this stunning collection are varied and complicated, full of mystery and surprise, as an aging poet comes to terms with death and eternity with the skills and grace of a master. -- Michael Jennings...

Biographie:
Kerry Shawn Keys is the author of many dozens of books, most recent among them Night Flight (poems), 2012; Pienas (prose tales and plays), 2013; New Poetry from China, 1917-2017, co-translated with Ming Di, 2018; and Shoelaces for Chagall, Love Poems (2020). Keys received the Robert H. Winner Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America in 1992 and, in 2005, a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship. He was a Senior Fulbright Research grantee for African-Brazilian studies in Salvador, Brazil, and from 1998 to 2000 taught translation theory and creative composition as a Fulbright Associate Professor at Vilnius University.