National Book Critics Circle Award Loose Sugar is an alchemical manuscript disguised as a collection of poems, or vice versa.
Either way, the primal materials of which this book is comprised -- love, sex, adolescence, space-time, depression, post-colonialism, and sugar -- are movingly and mysteriously transmuted: not into gold, but into a poet's philosopher's stone, in which language marries life.
Structurally virtuosic, elaborate without being ornate, Loose Sugar is spun into series within series: each of the five sections has a dual heading (such as space / time or time / work) in which the terms are neither in collision nor collusion, but in conversation.
It's elemental sweet talk, and is Brenda Hillman's most experimental work to date, culminating in a meditation on the possibility of a native -- and feminine -- language.
About the Author: BRENDA HILLMAN teaches writing at St.
Mary's College in Moraga, CA.
Her other books, all published by Wesleyan, include Cascadia (2001), Death Tractates (1992), Bright Existence (1992), and Fortress (1989).
| Transmuted | Not into gold but into a poets philosophers stone in which language marries life |
|---|---|
| Sugar is spun into series within series | Each of the five sections has a dual heading (such as space time or time work) in which the terms are neither in collision nor collusion but in conversation |
| Author | Brenda |
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