Asleep in the Lightning Fields: Poems

by Jorn Ake

Asleep in the Lightning Fields records observations of memory made as it works inefficiently to hold onto the present firmly and seeks to make concrete those momentary flashes of sense in an otherwise empty expanse. These moments are transitory and peripheral, and the language used to describe them rests heavily on the luck of irony and the bite of ambiguity. The final poem sleeps only fitfully with the awareness that even the most definitive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1881515443
• ISBN13: 9781881515449
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Texas Review Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 8.5"