Saline

by Kimberly Lyons

Poetry. "In the ribbons the light makes between night and the window. Objects offer only their parts, only an angle of their face. A cactus seen from a bedroom appears dense as an animal, a hot black being crouched outside on the gravel. The scent of another girl's dresses and her lace church gloves on the white formica dresser strangely suburban in the this adobe house, in this teeming Sonoran desert"--from Saline. "Again and again, a mindful image is cut out of the background of the world and then placed over another context, while the hollow shape left in the background is filled in by an image from a new context... In this regard, thoughts steals back and forth between objects and words, revealing a world of firefly details that comes close to descriptive hallucination"--Charles Borkhuis.

Genres: Poetry

72 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

Reviews

[Rodney · Rating 5 out of 5]

These winning assemblages of image and chaos, “newspaper dregs” and the silvery glamour of stars, are arranged “so as to encompass rapture/but not in any way spell it.” Lyons handles the lyric with the sensuous intensity of a painter at work on the picture plane, the self less a thing than a space for light and color “going into the words like that.”

[Elizabeth · Rating 5 out of 5]

Published by Instance Press under the editorship of Beth Anderson,myself and Stacy Szymazsek. No one writes quite like Kim does. A completely winning combination of New York School casualness, lyricism, and the inimitable Kim.

[Camille Martin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Saline: Kimberly Lyons’ Fleeting Continuum