Shimmer

by Wendy Barker

Wendy Barker's new collection, Shimmer, sparkles with arabesques of image, deft swerves into insight. The two discrete series that make up this volume together comprise a meditation on mortality by focusing on the phenomenology of mourning, the "radiant" surface of things: a Chinese scroll the speaker deciphers; the heirloom (sometimes plated) silver she has inherited.These poems "gleam in the light" of Barker's lyric precision, and radiate powerfully...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1941783570
• ISBN13: 9781941783573
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Glass Lyre Press
• Length: 44 Pages
• Weight: 0.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"