Blue Lash: Poems

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.

Author: James Armstrong
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 03/13/2006
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.3lbs
Size: 8.88h x 6.64w x 0.21d
ISBN: 9781571314246