Water Becomes Bone

by C. Mikal Oness

The poems of C. Mikal Oness fade in as if they have been speaking all along in the background in a frequency or volume lost to the human ear until their patience runs out and they enter, reverberating, sleek and insistent. With incantatory lines that are addressed more to the self than to an outward entity, Oness calls to mind Stevens' idea of the ultimate good--to believe in fictions while knowing they are fictions, to find real bliss only in what...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 093282689X
• ISBN13: 9780932826893
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: New Issues Poetry and Prose
• Length: 73 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.2" x 8.7"