Today's poem is "Retrobulbar"
from Veil and Burn
Laurie Clements Lambeth
lives in Houston with her husband and dog. Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Indiana Review, Mid-American Review, The Iowa Review, and elsewhere.
Books by Laurie Clements Lambeth:
Other poems on the web by Laurie Clements Lambeth :
"Symptoms*"
About Veil and Burn:
"In a poem that celebrates ease of movement, Lambeth writes 'who wouldn't want to/embrace that bird like air, feel its bones shift to leave you?' Poem after poem calls up this desire to rise above her symptoms of multiple sclerosis, above 'the feeling of true slowness' that assails her. She is both lyrical and pragmatic, nostalgic and tough-minded. As she says, 'Praise to all flinging bodies'and to this brave book."
"Laurie Clements Lambeth understands that the crisis facing the speaker in this indelible bookthe dawning struggles of MS, which troubles the nerves and veils and burns the visionis an intensification of what it is to be any body, the edge-of-crisis on which we all dwell. But her title also suggests the way photographers enhance images in the darkroom, making them more defined and beautiful. With courage and formal acuity, humor and tenderness, Lambeth 'veils and burns' a moving debut, a suite of poems that are forthright, adult, and entirely humane."
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