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    612-822-4611

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Hand Signs from Eternity's Yurt

Hand Signs from Eternity's Yurt

Raptosh, Diane

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1639801316
ISBN13: 9781639801312
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Jun 22 2022
Pages: 38
Weight: 0.14
Height: 0.08 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In Diane Raptosh's terrific new collection, Hand Signs from Eternity's Yurt, we find sonnets of rare visionary range, lyric density, and expressive power, inspired by the writings of Mary Midgely, a philosopher so sorely overlooked, though given here a contemporary address in the meditative heart and the polis of the political imagination. Such work, born of speculative hunger, reverence, conscience, and civic unease, explores an age of seclusion wherein the boundaries of fixed form mirror the rooms we live in, write in, speak from, aware our privacies cannot be extricated from the world at large. While sonnets here admit a figurative kinship with exclusionary spaces, they do so if only to open their windows to the threat of such exclusions. They seek, in their scale, precision, and largesse of resonance, to intensify our attention to detail and what, therefore, we have to lose, to mourn, to praise, to honor in the complexity of the human and its margins. These are the songs, so timely in their incisiveness, that teach us the most slowly debuted / state of risk. A phenomenal book.

-Bruce Bond,

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