Then

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491_9781848617452

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Linda Blacks sparkling poems charm and beguile - and then, quite often, twist a small knife. Under a rubric of little involuntary musings, she makes a miscellany of different forms: prose poems, grid poems, extended aphorisms with a sting in the tail, fantastical flash-fiction. They toy with nostalgia, trailing threads of real memories into imaginary word-gardens bristling with tricks. Words collude / allude, slip over each other, with many near-misses. They lean into one another, threaten connection, narrowly miss and ricochet in another direction. Allusions are so nearly (neatly-delightfully) pinned down, are always on the verge of escaping. Daintiness jostles disgust as the poems joke, jibe, curse, cast spells - about food, fripperies, old china, seemingly new-to-you trifles that really arent trifling at all. Then tugs and teases - at possible pasts, possible consequences, half-glimpsed narratives - all assembled into glittering bricolage. -Anna ReckinComments on Slant:Blacks hesitant, unclosed narratives and heart-stopping pauses are more reminiscent of the late Lee Harwoods poetry: crystalline, fictive, artful. Her vocabulary is more recherché than Harwoods, her poems often more tautly constructed, more pictorial. In her lusher moments she can disappear into lists of fanciful compound words and sonic pairings, although it is in and through these devices that her poetry achieves its rich, sing-song music; but there are little gregarious footings (to quote the poet in She takes herself out of herself) whereby her poems gain purchase on a human story and haul themselves up and out into shared experience and the quotidian. [...] ...it is in her own searching, slanted stories that Blacks poetic gift shines, in her inventive use of nursery rhyme and old vernaculars, in her recognition that bread needs the tin of strife. -John Muckle PN ReviewThe delicate threads of Blacks lines lean in such a way that stasis merges into movement ...

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