β Scribed by Keith, Sally.
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Moving from the mundane to the profound, first through observation of fact and matter, then shifting perspective, engaging a deeper sense of self, these poems re-imagine things great and small, making us care deeply about the world around us. In this cultivated and intricately crafted collection, Sally Keith shows the self as a crucible of forceβthat which compels us to exert ourselves upon the world, and meanwhile renders us vulnerable to it. Force by which a line unfurlsβas in Robert Smithsonβs colossal Spiral Jettyβor leads with forward motionβa train hurdling along the west-reaching railroad; Edweard Muybridgeβs photographic reels charting animal and human locomotion. With poems remarkable in their clarity, captivating in their matter-of-factness, Keith examines the impossible and inevitable privacy of being a person in the world, meanwhile negotiating an inexorable pull toward the places we call homeβone we alternately try and fail to resist.
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