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The Loving Detail of the Living & the Dead

by Eleni Sikelianos

Coffee House, dist. by Consortium. Apr. 2013. 124p. ISBN 9781566893244. pap. $15.95.

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Electric as a lightning storm, wild as a first-growth forest, protean as fantasy's shape-shifters—that's Sikelianos's poetry, a real pleasure to read. Sikelianos takes a tough stance—"my little bird-&-meat/…say hello to this time-eating spider"—and throughout there's a sense of life lived on the edge. Go with her when she says, "A beautiful painful grammar walks through my brain."—BH

Reviewed by Barbara Hoffert , Apr 15, 2013

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