Piano in the DarkAuthor :
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Published : Saturday 6 May 2023
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Poetry from an especially deft magician of words. A This latest book of wonders from Nancy Naomi Carlson fixes upon one of the few defenses we have to confront the bodyâ?Ts betrayalsâ?"our words. Though in the end, even the worldâ?Ts last word â?oforgets its name . . . has no word for this forgetting.â?? At once vulnerable and open, tempered and tempted equally by the erotic and the empathic, such dualities limn these affectingly beautiful and lyrical poems. Carlsonâ?Ts lines, entreating as Scheherazade, â?oweave chords / into tales within tales, whirlpools within seasâ?? to save her life. Indeed, music has no need for voice or harp, as â?oin anechoic chambers, you become / the only instrument of your worldly sounds,â?? echoing Mozartâ?Ts credo â?othat music lies / in the silence between notes.â?? In a world scarred by pandemics, wars, and violent tribalism, the givens are goneâ?"â?otalismans we clung to, believing / we might be spared in some way / by marking our doors / with our own sacrificial blood.â?? In these unflinching free and formal verse poems, Carlson seduces us with the promise of the joy yet to be had, were we to look in the right places. A
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