Loose Sugar (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
Loose Sugar (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Brenda Hillman
English | 1997 | ISBN: 0819522430 | 116 Pages | EPUB | 3.13 MB
English | 1997 | ISBN: 0819522430 | 116 Pages | EPUB | 3.13 MB
Loose Sugar is an alchemical manuscript disguised as a collection of poems, or vice versa. Either way, the primal materials of which this book is comprised – love, sex, adolescence, space-time, depression, post-colonialism, and sugar – are movingly and mysteriously transmuted: not into gold, but into a poet's philosopher's stone, in which language marries life.
Structurally virtuosic, elaborate without being ornate, Loose Sugar is spun into series within series: each of the five sections has a dual heading (such as "space / time" or "time / work") in which the terms are neither in collision nor collusion, but in conversation. It's elemental sweet talk, and is Brenda Hillman's most experimental work to date, culminating in a meditation on the possibility of a native – and feminine – language.