You might also like

More about Blue Lash

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 33 loyalty points

Book synopsis

In "Blue Lash, " James Armstrong explores the way a physical place can be alchemically transformed into mental geographies. The world of Lake Superior comes alive and expands outward in these poems: cicadas "grind their teeth/under the blue roof of August"; a quartz pebble becomes "little knuckle/petrified egg/white as a wave-cap"; a Jet Ski "revs past the dock/like a demon out of Milton." Stripping away the layer of sentimentality that often cloaks the lake, Armstrong portrays it instead as a rebuke to human arrogance, and a reminder of the sublime indifference of wild places.

Book details

Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry

• Full title: Blue Lash
• Author: Armstrong, James, PH.
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 88
• EAN: 9781571314246
• ISBN: 9781571314246
• ID: 06576834
• Publisher: Milkweed Editions
• Weight: 141 g
• Dimensions: 228 × 152 × 5 mm
• Date of publishing: 27. April 2006

Trending among others

---

---

---