Dept to the Bone-Eating Snotflower

Book name: Dept to the Bone-Eating Snotflower
Book type: Poetry
Author: Sarah Lindsay
Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 978-1- 55659- 446 - 5
133 pages
Copyright 2013
Cost: $ 16 dollars
Reviewed by: Allen Klingelhoets

First, the author Sarah Lindsay was born in 1958.

Second, Copper Canyon Press is in residence at Fort Warden State Park in Port Townsend, Washington under the auspices of Centrum. Centrum is a gathering place for artists and creative thinkers from around the world, students of all ages and backgrounds, and audiences seeking extraordinary cultural enrichment.

Books also by Sarah Lindsay also include;

Twigs and Knucklebones

Mount Clutter

Primate Behavior

Insomniac's Lullaby

Bodies of Water

I wanted to try something different today. I got "Dept to the Bone-Eating Snotflower" from discard table at library. This is the authors fourth collection. I really enjoyed her poetry. I do not understand many of the words involved with poetry. The poems to me are like miniature stories in lyrical format. One of my favorites of her poems is called Origin. This is her poem not mine. I only wish i had this sort of talent.

Origin

The first cell felt no call to divide.

Fed on abundant salts and sun,

still thin, it simply spread,

rocking on water, clinging to stone,

a film of obliging strength.

Its endoplasmic reticulum

was a thing of incomparable curvaceous length;

its nucleus, Gogli apparatus, R. N. A.

magnificent. With no incidence

of loneliness, inner conflict, or deceit,

No predator or prey,

it has little to do but thrive,

draw back from any sharp heat

or bitterness, and change its pastel

colors in a kind of song.

We are all descendants of the second cell.


Here is a picture of author, Sarah Lindsay


Also, information on Sarah Lindsay on Wikipedia.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Lindsay



The address for Copper Canyon Press is
Post Office box 271
Port Townsend, Washington 98368


Review by: Allen Klingelhoets