The Transit of Venus

by Susan Firer

In Firer's poems, place, often the western shore of Lake Michigan, provides an imagistic and sonic landscape in which language explores the 'empire of skin' with its daily happinesses and sorrows, gifts and losses. Often blue light illuminates these poems and frequently the language of a Catholic childhood shows up. Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams's poems say 'Use everything, ' and Firer does: receipts, anatomy, astronomy, clothes poles, paintings,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1935218417
• ISBN13: 9781935218418
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Backwaters Press
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"