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Winner of the 2006 Snowbound Series Chapbook Award, selected by Marie Howe.
Prose poems alternate with brief lyrics to describe a narrative arc of failed and renewed romantic love—a turning inward, turning outward again, and no turning back, even in the face of loss.
Like the narcissus flower—delicate petals that bloom from a poisonous bulb, a flower named for the Greek myth of the youth who falls in love with his own reflection—the poems offer a sense of both beauty and danger. The danger of love and of love's beautiful illusions, and the beauty that's revealed after those illusions have been stripped away and what remains is the shimmer beneath the shimmering reflection, some deeper shine. Here, the meadows bare themselves to the moon, the new beloved steps out of the shadows, one enters "into a new love as into a mirror," and the mirror turns to rain.
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Ming Chieh Yew
reviewed Narcissus on June 17, 2008 Narcissus
This beautifully produced winner of the Tupelo Snowbound Chapbook series (2007) is at once delicate and ferocious...The primarily lyric poems are laced with stunning images (of desire, of loss) that sear: "Sun tossed like coins across the bed,/and the glittering of birdsong, breeze/the cool blue of his eyes." (Greed) or, "Whose one white note is feast enough/for all the throats of dusk" (Whose Hunger0
There is a careful attention to the music in poems that are quietly formal and sound is primary. Woloch also manages the sense of line in prose poems -- which constitute nearly a third of the book -inhabiting that mode fluidly, transendently.
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