Synopsis:
"Sarah Lindsay's poems have been hailed as "dark-edged ... with a buoying sense of respect-for the different, the unexpected and the challenging." (Publishers Weekly) Lindsay's new collection, Mount Clutter, is the product of an immensely original and exhilarating poetic sensibility, ranging wide across a highly distinctive imaginary landscape. In a voice that is distinctly her own, Lindsay probes the uncharted territories of history's curious little corners, reanimating obscure accounts of strange discoveries and bizarre scientific findings. A stunning sequence on the discovery of the Bufo Islands imagines what it means to encounter something as yet unnamed, unknown to human history, but bursting with possibilities. Lindsay similarly breathes new life into literary classics and ancient Greek myths, taking, for example, the well-known motif of Orpheus's descent into the underworld and transforming it into a hauntingly resonant portrait of the vicissitudes of loss. Lindsay's poems exude an extraordinary ability of fusing the outlandish and the little-known historical minutiae with the unmistakably familiar markers of the human experience. Mount Clutter is a remarkably sustained and self-assured performance — stirring new poetry from the acclaimed 1997 national Book Award finalist."

I'm not much into poetry usually, have had more than my annual dosis of Dutch poetry this weekend and in this long Easter weekend I was cleaning out my shelves when my eye fell on this book.
It is ready to travel to new readers.

Reserved to send out as a ray.

Preliminary order:
Kata (FIN) (EU, intl. if neccessary)
hesiodo66 (ARG)
minesayn (USA)

This book is now on its way to the first reader in the ray.

Happy reading, -Kata-, I hope you enjoy the book!

The book arrived today, thank you Boekentrol! :)

I finished reading this today. I really liked it, especially the fact that the poems had so many biological and geographical details. And they were not too abstract.
I just still can't believe how long it took me to read this... O_o
Thank you Boekentrol for offering this book as a ray!

Off to the next reader to the other side of the world. :)
Enjoy!

received today!

I have read some of the poems, and I ready to send the book to the next.
To me, the best is the first one, "Olduvai Gorge Thorn tree"

TO MINESAYN

Received in the mail today...thanks to Boekentrol for parting with it as a ray, and to hesiodo66 for sending it to me (I think this may be the first time ever receiving a book from South America, specifically Argentina...thanks for the postcard as well). Picking poems at random so far, but will read with discernment in the future.