Trace

Simone Muench

Trace
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Black Lawrence Press
Country
United States
Published
15 April 2014
Pages
35
ISBN
9781625579911

Trace

Simone Muench

Through these 26 haunting poems, which draw from sources ranging from Dante to Baudelaire to Berryman to Millay, Simone Muench reimagines the figure of the wolf and the cento form by interrogating the possibilities, limits, and interplay of language, the human animal, and the hungry landscapes of relationship and poetic homage. Muench’s speakers confront their own darkness and mortality through flickers of wilderness and heat: Tonight, the wolf is a solitary shadow / that spills between stone & revery / as bodies resume their boundaries. / … / Facedown, I lick away the footprints. Through evocations of the animate self-wolf and human-Muench’s traces leave behind a living heart, a mark in the snow. Lyrical, elliptical, and intertextual, TRACE looks fiercely into the animal dark to reveal a vaulting sunrise, hissing salt.

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