Blanshard’s mystical book length poem, Sheetstone, is a woman’s journey into a spiritual realm where narrative, language, and emotion are tender and fractured. The slopes of this epic poetry-memoir is a’ magic whip’ for passion, remembrance, healing songs of bitterness and witty irony. Love and death on the same bed, or powerful imagers of visceral pain and tenderness are put together with feeling and intelligence. Like ‘the seed in the core’ the poetry resides inside an ineffable heart and comes out in original, sensitive, beautiful tones and words. Romantic lyrics that surround the poet’s travels through Asia to Europe, Oceania and finally Hanoi. Each is laced with the sights and sounds of these land masses, weaving the traces of clothing and architecture into the distance between the poet and her beloved. A significant love relationship is at once a rite of passage as well as a source of inspiration.
Table of Content
PART 1
DIALOGUE OF DESIRE
POEM OF THE INTIMATE 6
OPIUM8
FRAGMENTS12
BONE AND RIVER14
INTIMATE ROOMS16
SILK19
PILLOW SPEAK21
MEMOIR FOR A LOVER27
THE ARTIST AT MOUNT VICTORIA28
SEX/FLESH/SPIRIT 32
THE ESSAYS32
PART II44
DIALOGUE OF THE INTIMATE
PLACES SHE RETURNS TO WITH EYES CLOSED47
PART III52
THE ART OF LOVE
UNIVERSAL QUESTIONS 60
PART IV 62
THE ARTICLES OF EXPOSURE
PART V68
FRAGMENTARY THOUGHTS
PAINTED CHRONICLES77
UNIVERSAL QUESTIONS 2/280
MONOLITHIC86
UNIVERSAL QUESTIONS 3/392
THE MUSEUM OF SMALL FINDINGS98
THE FUGITIVE TEARS104
DECEMBER107
FEBRUARY108
MARCH112
TWO HUMAN ERRORS 116
A LINE DRAWN THROUGH MID-POINT ON A CIRCLE 117
CONVERSATIONS BEFORE LEAVING 121
FOSSILS OF US 128
About the author
Susan Blanshard was born in Hampshire, England. She is a best-selling author, and an internationally acclaimed poet, essayist. Susan experienced a nomadic childhood. Consequently, her literary work is colored by her multicultural past and present.
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