\u201cJoe Rosenblatt\u2019s book must invite comparisons to the Dark Lady sonnets<\/em>. It moves Rosenblatt into the exploration of the erotic. It provides us with the highly crafted portrayal of love in one of the oldest literary forms … poetry and sexual energy, lyrical thrusts, lines of uninterrupted powerflow.\u201d \u2014The Windsor Star<\/em><\/p>\n

Joe Rosenblatt is a prolific and innovative poet, a self-confessed misanthrope and surrealist who, in this volume, has stepped into the straitjacket of the sonnet. He has won the Governor General\u2019s Award for poetry.<\/p>\n

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The snake\u2019s undulations dazzle lunatic man as he fumbles at love\u2019s door. The worm in his eye is woman shedding her several skins. The worm on his thigh is how love begins. Man, slinking through the cankered garden, fleeing God\u2019s despair and the pestilential crowd of sobriety, craves her flesh, her diamond-pointed see-through skin in spirals. He sings his epithalamion \u2014 he is hers in dreams and bondage, following the umbilical cord back to the oval opening, lost among apples and Evangels, submerged in felicity and labial fire, risking hitmen in rubber suits and the nitro-bottled future \u2014 all for a glimpse of his olivaceous lover, sweet meats and incandescence, and a split tear. Love poems in the bloomed night, unzippered eels in the dust.<\/p>\n

Poetry; 1979 \u2022 6 x 9 inches \u2022 PB 99 pages \u2022 9780920428108<\/span><\/p>\n

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