Satellite Strains

by Michael Blitz

Poetry. In SATELLITE STRAINS, Blitz puts the idea of "strain" and its multiple applications at the center of an elaborate constellation of "turned"--and finely tuned phrases. "You said it/quickly and in a strict sense I heard/something else," he writes. This "strict sense" keeps picking up different strains in words, fragments of meaning enmeshed in a crosshatched pattern of precision and distortion: "even the quality of the sadness is a matter/of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1880516314
• ISBN13: 9781880516317
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Left Hand Books
• Length: 90 Pages