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Satin Cash |
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Lisa Russ Spaar
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"[Her poetry] is the perfect marriage of the realism of William Carlos Williams and the sleepless heaven-seeking... of Dickinson and Hopkins."—Virginia Quarterly Review
In the wake of Blue Venus, called "a virtuoso book" by the Los Angeles Times Book Review, comes this ravishing volume of bodily, even carnal prayers, that quiver with the ecstasy and anguish of longing. Lisa Russ Spaar has long produced poems that emit a palpable, devotional Eros, but Satin Cash is a raw, more elemental invocation of human yearning—a startling song of worship and fetish. Format: Paperback
Publication Date: June 2008
Price: $14.00
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After John Donne's "To his Mistress Going to Bed"
by Lisa Russ Spaar What might she send — a wet sleeve,
or platter of brine-latticed bluefish
dusky with capers, lemons, wine;
a briar for your thumb, a mouth,
lunatic, to suck the blood:
a signal that one too often
inside & now beside herself with thoughts
of you wonders how she might woo
and through dew-whetted keyhole
pursue & sing & win? She is marvelous
with waiting. Come. Hunt here.
Relieve with hands and tongue her heavy hour.
From Satin Cash: Poems by Lisa Russ Spaar. Copyright © 2008 by Lisa Russ Spaar. Used by permission of Persea Books. All rights reserved.
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