The Near Surround
by Nancy Mitchell
ISBN: 1-884800-42-4
paper, 68 pages, $13.95
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"In taut, tentative lyrics that attempt a precarious balance in a landscape
ravaged by loss, the narrator allows the wounded psyche to begin its
laborious process of emergence and renewal. These tentative explorations
focus on negative space made palpable when viewed through the gauzy layers
of creation's healing art: 'Now I watch / what gathers between us, //
between me / and what isn't you.' Like H.D., our neglected master of the
fragmentary gesture, Nancy Mitchell offers wrenching testimonials to those
vast and luminous human privacies that animate and transform our common
selves."
Michael Waters
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