{"product_id":"sails-the-wind-left-behind-paperback","title":"Sails the Wind Left Behind - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlessandra Lynch\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her first collection, Alessandra Lynch deftly combines the surreal and the lyric into a striking and confident whole. At times witty, at times dreamlike, the poems revel in dense Symbolist-like imagery, juxtaposition, wordplay, and rhyme. By refusing a certain kind of transparency--direct statement and traditional allusion--Lynch excavates the shadowy region of the psyche. From a rich profusion of images emerge themes of unrealized desire, and the ways in which we may fail to be present in our own lives or to others. The poems seek to resolve these themes, suggesting how words, in memorializing the disorientations of life, reorient us; that it is in the tokens and monuments of our failed desires, broken promises--Sails the wind left behind--that we are able to find ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003efrom Where I live: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI live in a past passage of the rageful crow\u003cbr\u003e and its stalkfirst feet;\u003cbr\u003e it has staked my sleep\u003cbr\u003e and forced me to crawl through flamethrown dawn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI begin my day in slow burn, \u003cbr\u003e the stove unlit and the flower's mouth stuffed\u003cbr\u003e with bribecloth and weep.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI begin stacking wood in a miniature village\u003cbr\u003e wearing the flint of wake and the stone of sleep.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI live in a sleeve of love which won't have me\u003cbr\u003e leaning against moonhay which don't love me\u003cbr\u003e strumming a stack-tune in three-fingered rain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlessandra is shockingly good. The heroic of her narrative reminds me of Emily Dickinson, when it isn't reminding me of Hart Crane. I have loved her work for years and once they get the hang of it, the rest of the world will too. Bless this magnificent new book --Gerald Stern\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlessandra Lynch \u003c\/b\u003ewas raised north of New York City. She holds a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Currently, she teaches creative writing and English to high school students.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.26 x 8.64 x 5.46 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2002\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42700627378239,"sku":"9781882295364","price":15.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/9d1d3982e0f5eee9b9b597fa0a73aad8.webp?v=1765017500","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/sails-the-wind-left-behind-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}