Under That Silky Roof
Elizabeth Robinson
Burning Deck
71 Elmgrove Avenue, Providence, R. I. 02906
1886224714, $14.00, www.burningdeck.com
A new collection of poems from seasoned poet Elizabeth Robinson is
now available in the anthology "Under That Silky Roof" from
Burning Deck. A focus on the day to day life of a domestic
housewife--the companionship, fecundity, it's sacrifices, it's
losses and the abstractness of it all. A deftly written and composed
book of poetry, "Under that Silky Roof" is highly recommended
to community library poetry collections. Gesture: And why now/raking
through hair/feathers for aerial structure//fingering the minimal
gauge//A bird in the hand/tame as an egg,/but redundant//figure whose
winged digits plummet//this soothing gasp://twigs, let-down,/hope's
trickery.
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