In the Black Window : New and Selected Poems

✍ Scribed by Michael Van Walleghen

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 205
• Series: Illinois Poetry Ser.
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The title of Michael Van Walleghen's new collection evokes thematic preoccupations that have shadowed him throughout his long career. Appearing as a phrase in the poems themselves, In the Black Window more generally points to Van Walleghen's enduring interest in the intersection between inner and outer worlds of experience--those liminal moments in other worlds where we become aware of ourselves. We live at once in a strictly personal, material dimension but also in a distinctly spiritual one. Yet, when looking from a lighted kitchen into a night-black window on a winter evening, we might perhaps become suddenly aware not only of our own reflection, but also of our complicity in some deeper mystery altogether.