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A Hellsmouth for Orpheus
Description
To the poet's quest for immortal vision, A Hellsmouth for Orpheus offers the longing of human desire. Raw but discreet, deliberately sensual, evoking an elusive authority, this book-length poem turns to the love of song to rescue life from annihilation by the common-place. As Appelbaum writes,
nature is observed
when eros
disturbs the breath
in heights
with questions
in the mirror