Whore: Poems

Whore is haunted by intimations of love as fleeting as it is mysterious, as the poet traces an unraveling in which the sensory world, in all its lush desolation, becomes a mirror of loss. In poems of longing, rapture, heart-wreck, and self- confrontation, when both private and public worlds seem to be on the verge of disintegration, everything is up for questioning and re-examination.

Sarah Maclay walks into the shaded areas of canvas, willing to follow the play of light and dark until that which is obscure moves into focus. Even language itself, that great interlocutor of the psyche, begins to lose its stability. In the title poem, the result of a trip to the dictionary in search of another word, its etymology that shocks us into an awareness of the potential for contradiction buried in the very roots of language.

With its symbolist undertones and surrealist echoes, this is a poetry of evocation and presence at once tactile and subliminal-a poetry of night.

• Author
• Sarah Maclay

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 73

• Publisher
• University of Tampa Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781879852976

• Genres
• poetry

• Release date
• 2004