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Company of moths
By Palmer, Michael
- ISBN
- 978-0-81121-623-4
- Publisher
- New York : New Directions Books, 2005.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on April 15, 2005
In his 18th collection, experimental poet Palmer (The Promises of Glass ) again combines spare lyricism and nocturnal visions ("This writing inside/ the lids of the eyes") in poems that resemble dream notes or lost translations from the French symbolists. They derive their tropes from an evocative if limited palette (owl, star, stone, book, moth) and create a sense of metaphysical unease through rhetorical questioning ("...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
