Dusk Before Dawn: Poems
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Genres: Poetry, Cultural Fiction, Memoir/Biographies. Format: Multiple. Views: This Week 450, Total 1344.
These poems represent the most formative years in the creative life of the author. Moving ever closer to a different reality, Knauss presents the reader with a world in which anything is possible. Experience the horror, the laughter, the sorrow and the joy as she takes us on a physical, psychological, and spiritual journey through words.
"I don't think I have ever before swallowed a book of poetry at one sitting, reading on from one poem to the next, not wanting the words to stop, but that is exactly what I did with Dusk Before Dawn, by Jessica Knauss. My delight was in part that I recognised experiences that are the stuff of her poetry: Old English poetry, the mind-expanding effect of a second language, the almost overwhelming weight of history a North American feels in Europe, and its opposite, the thisness, timelessness and inhumanness of redwood trees, Massachusetts snow, sun setting into the Pacific, library stacks. And it was in another part, her own, individual experiences of love, longing, loneliness and fulfilment, which she offers straight up, no chaser. Reading her poetry is like doing tequila shots: you feel every drop of words as they enter your system, and when each poem hits you in its entirety, it is no time at all until you want to belly up to the bar and ask her to hit you again. But that's not it, because after the book is closed, there's no hangover, only the sense that you've heard a voice you want to listen to again. Jessica Knauss is in love with words. Her poems are often exuberant, never cloying. She is economical; never excessive. This is the poetry of a young woman with a poetic grace and poise few achieve in a lifetime." Amazon.com review
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