Stone Blind Love
$34.95
A son’s vision of family life distilled through disparate times and places in which stones never sleep: they grow, the seeds of all misdeeds. The father hitch-hikes around town, intimate so long as he can say he’s a stranger; the mother, in a world lunatic with the despair of millions at prayer, limps out of her husband’s life while lying in his bed looking for a cure. On their streets are soldiers and pilgrims and Sesephus the Crack King…diviners, hustlers and hookers.
Poetry, 1988 • 6 x 9 inches • PB 124 pages • 9780920428818
Very Rare – less than 10 copies available
“This is a beautiful book. Its writing is clean and sure. Its ‘here’ is this world and its voice is the human voice – and the real particulars are kept in focus. A coherence of meanings is somehow implied, like that of theoretical physics, but in a wholly new, sun-weathered dimension.” —Margaret Atwood
“Stone Blind Love is a descent into the underworld, a dark, oracular sequence of variations upon mortality and metamorphosis. Its imagery is rich and many-layered. On one level, the book is an elegy on the death of a mother, which opens out into memories of a troubled family history. On another level, it is a representation of human existence cycling ironically between the equally ‘stone blind’ conditions of life and death. It is a most impressive achievement.” —Northrup Frye
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