Overview
With a supple, meditative approach, Erin Knight explores the complexity of beauty in this first collection by an astonishing new talent. The Sweet Fuels also reflects on the notion of orientation -- whether in terms of magnetic north or street signs, the entrails of an animal or the vowels in a name -- as a task of translation.
Of the more than four dozen poems in the book, some are written in English, others are rendered from Spanish. Still others perform a high-wire act -- written in English, converted to Spanish, and then back into English. The practise of translation allows for a direction that does not try to reorder or simplify the world, but rather emphasizes the promise of continuous engagement with our points of reference.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780864924919
- ISBN-10: 0864924917
- Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
- Publish Date: April 2007
- Dimensions: 8.51 x 5.62 x 0.24 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.28 pounds
- Page Count: 88
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