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The Headless Saints (New Issues Poetry & Prose)

By Hardy, Myronn

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"'To stare is to see nothing. / It's in quiet observation where all becomes visible.' These lines sum up the vigilant spirit of Myronn Hardy's agile second book, The Headless Saints, which offers an apt vision of the black Diaspora in cogent, kaleidoscopic shards. With a meticulous eye, he sees 'white chickens thin as vertebrae' or contemplates the inedible 'blood porridge' of a violent, bigoted world. Hardy's cosmopolitan poems can seem as delicate as a trellised vine or as strong as ironwork: he's a quietly artful, wonderfully clear-sighted poet." --Cyrus Cassells

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978-1-93097-476-0
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New Issues Poetry & Prose


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Reviewed on April 14, 2008

"The radio buried in sand is language," one poem early in Hardy's second book begins, and the pages that follow include broadcasts from all over the world. Bred in Arkansas, now based in New York City, the poet finds terse lines and pithy symbols in cityscapes, seascapes and inland scenes from Venice and Turin, "Somalia or Ethiopia," "Bahia, Brazil," in shantytowns, world capitals, and flood zones. "Seaweed circles le...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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