(Creature Sounds Fade) - Shanna Compton

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Résumé :
Poems in (CREATURE SOUNDS FADE) slip through cracks into other worlds a little unfamiliar and they insist on the urgency of making what is unfamiliar familiar. You have to see how these poems sound in your head. As private and public exchange places with one another, we're let in to Compton's poems, we're invited to provide the variable. -- Dara Barrois/Dixon
This collection is, from the get-go, parenthetical, by which I mean layered horizontally in voice, architecture, inflection, and sound-- the sound of the ever-fading world, and the soundtrack of the human interior. The tone is a shimmering dread with a backbeat of wonder, and the reigning approach to the line is the caesura-- gaps, silences, and redactions. Everything teeters, transmogrifies...

Sommaire:
Shanna Compton is a poet, printmaker, and book designer in Blue Hill, ME. She is the author of five books of poems: Creature Sounds Fade (Black Lawrence Press), Midwinter Constellation (coauthor, Black Lawrence Press), Brink (Bloof Books), For Girls & Other Poems (Bloof Books), Down Spooky (Winnow Press). Her poems have appeared in publications such as The Nation, American Poetry Review, the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series, Court Green, Bennington Review, Black Warrior Review, Typo, and The Best American Poetry anthology series. As a visual artist, she works in linocut, collage, monotype, screen print, and mixed media. Selected work is available through Hi Water Press, a growing list of local galleries and art shops, and a rotating schedule of seasonal markets and art festivals in Maine. She also freelances as a commercial book designer and illustrator, collaborating with more than a dozen independent publishers....