Delinquent Palaces: Poems

Danielle Chapman

Delinquent Palaces: Poems
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Country
United States
Published
15 April 2015
Pages
72
ISBN
9780810130944

Delinquent Palaces: Poems

Danielle Chapman

What does it mean to pray or praise in the twenty-first century? What does it mean to lament, to attend? In this volatile, visionary debut collection, Danielle Chapman seeks to be known / in one’s own person as crocuses are known / by sun, conceiving green to breathe it / for ravishment by light. Driven toward stark landscapes and nowheres of the spirit, these poems steadfastly seek the lyrical and spiritual promise implicit in difficulty-where spring sing[s] slime / through snail stones and the river’s cashmere roiled. Chapman’s work testifies to the revelation and the anguish of love, and to the possibility of finding grace in the interstices of pain / where God’s green / meets man’s limestone. These hard-edged, wry, and intricately musical poems deliver a life that has been felt to its limits, and transformed into singular art.

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