Weaver in the Sluices: Selected Poems - Softcover

Staniforth, Daniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908011084 ISBN 13: 9781908011084

Publisher: Skylight Press, 2010

Synopsis

Daniel Staniforth's book of poems Weaver in the Sluices is an intermixing of zones where the light of the waking body rises and transmixes its power with falling uranian whispers. These poems exist at the cusp where both realities overspill and condense, making fleeting forays into the unsayable. - Will Alexander // In Weaver in the Sluices, Daniel Staniforth pulls variously from Bardic tradition, contemporary lament, and surrealist landscapes to "filter the nutrients of thought." The poet invokes erotic passion and political protest alike, all while navigating the "midriff of the sun," "star-widths of fancy," and the "nape of the sea." In these poems, such wonders shift continually between foreground and background to portray a world where, ultimately, "the hollows subsume the shape." - Elizabeth Robinson

About this title

About the Author

Daniel Staniforth is a British writer, composer and teacher, recently serving for three years at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics' Summer Writing Programme in the US. His music recordings include works by Alchymical Muse, Luna Trick and Rebsie Fairholm, with whom he works regularly. Daniel writes poetry, fiction and literary analysis.

Edition details

• Publisher: Skylight Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908011084
• ISBN 13: 9781908011084
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128