Name: Likeness, Paperback/Katrina Roberts
Brand: Finishing Line Press
Price: 157.99 RON
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Is this what we look like to others-pieced together from precious, found parts? Blazing with tender color and light? Dancing and keening and contemplating? Oh, all the ways, unseen and unknown, we hold ourselves, project our desires, protect our interiors-captured in the pages of this glorious and magical collection. Hieroglyphic (but entirely legible), alchemical (but in no way esoteric) the drawing/word conversations in LIKENESS are made of the stuff of anyone's day: here is a hammer, a rabbit, a birdcage...and here we all are, bodied in grief, in yearning, in joy, our dreams bearing forth older, deeper forms of knowing. "For whom among us has not felt herself a cipher," Katrina Roberts writes. With these words as your guide, enter this most fabulous and fabular world. -Lia Purpura I want to use these wonderful meta-fables and homemade fairy tales as poetry prompts. My poem after Katrina Roberts' [you claim never to have peered into a mirror to see a cannibal?], for example, might involve a soup can or mention the pen ink quirks of Andy Warhol. LIKENESS is a veritable inspiration engine. Even the table of contents reads like a brilliant cento of poetry. In fact, I doubt Roberts distinguishes writing and drawing: every sumptuous line is a poem. -Terrance Hayes What curious wilderness might come from allowing the visual to occupy more fully the space of text-lest we've forgotten, too, that text is visual? In LIKENESS, Roberts is both auger answer. At once a prophecy of potent