Name: A Breathable Light
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Author: Torreson, Rodney
ISBN: 9781930974234

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Author

Rodney Torreson

Publisher

New Issues Poetry and Prose

Year

2002

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

25.1 x 15.2 x 0.7 cm

Weight

0.16 kg.

ISBN

193097423x

ISBN13

9781930974234

Synopsis "A Breathable Light"

At the beginning of Rodney Torreson's fascinating second book, everything is in its place--ordinary, time-honored, known. Then, quite without warning, the familiar becomes new, alien, strangely awful or strangely dazzling. In a landscape of ditch, fence, branch, stone, and weed, it seems all living creatures are in league with the dry wind and the icebound ruts--deer, pig, horse, cow, even the innocent, suckling lamb. In subversive ways, A Breathable Light takes the human figure out of his seat in the foreground, strips him of all privileges and asks him to understand himself as nature understands him. . . Thus, as an old gate-post settles into mud, the farmer sees his own quietly abandoned ambition; night falls and a tractor starts up of its own accord; the family dog has wool scraps in its teeth; a saddle slips and the upended rider finds himself galloping in air, "head striking the / grassy sky until [he sees] stars . . ." This is the truth about nature and human nature, and in forty-four beautifully uncluttered poems Torreson shows us the world as it's always been--a realm of unrelenting wonder.

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