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A Sudden Sky Selected Poems

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  • Publisher:
    Brick Books, 2001
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Date:
    Created
    2001
    Summary:

    A Sudden Sky is a book of northern poems with crystalline images and lines, fragile graceful poems that speak of fragments, of the moment between open and closed eyes, of the human need for embrace. These poems note the spaces between things – always a gap, a failed connection, like radio waves caught in the sky.

    I REFUSE to accept
    the spine’s dictated script
    which at the precise moment
    lets itself dissolve, lets itself be inserted
    as a footnote of terror
    in the great law
    that has condemned us to carry
    the quake’s loosening
    when the alibi doesn’t hold
    and the body surrenders itself
    when dawn cleans up
    among the stars

    Gernes has called poetry “a resistance movement”, explaining “A poem gives us the possibility of hearing our own voices. While the media offer us the world in small pieces, which are experienced as chaos, poetry seeks connections”.

    Subject(s): Danish poetry
    Original Publisher: London, Brick Books
    Language(s): English
    Collection(s)/Series: Brick Books Poetry