<P>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. </P><P>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.</P>
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<P>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).</P>
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