Cleopatra Mathis, Author Sheep Meadow Press $13.95 (89p) ISBN 978-0-935296-84-6
Mathis's ( The Bottom Land ) impressive third collection abounds with broadly outlined images: she writes of ``the dead ones,'' ``a blind man'' and ``the senile one,'' continually shifting and modifying the identity of the ``you'' who is addressed....
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Cleopatra Mathis. Sarabande (Consortium, dist.), $14.95 trade paper (80p) ISBN 978-1-936747-47-4
Animals dominate this humane and serious sixth collection from Mathis (White Sea), at first in the chill forests of New England, and then in and around the sea. The title poem begins with “the wasp fallen to the wood floor,/ enough universe for the...
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Cleopatra Mathis. Sarabande, $15.95 trade paper (220p) ISBN 978-1-9464486-0-6
Over the last four decades, Mathis (Book of Dog) has quietly crafted lyrically precise, often harrowing poems in which the poet’s “throat is a long avenue of ice,/ cutting the familiar good words/ at their source.” This generous volume draws from...
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