Description
Navigation
by Linda Elkin
$19.99, Full-length, paper
978-1-63534-834-7
2019
Linda Elkin’s poetry has been published in numerous publications, including The Bloomsbury Review, Green Mountains Review, Midwest Quarterly, Southern Poetry Review, Tar River, 5AM, Antiphon, and in other journals and anthologies, including Kindled Terraces: American Writers in Greece (Truman State University Press). She is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, and has been awarded writers residencies at Soapstone and the Vermont Studio Center. Linda grew up in NYC and now lives in Oakland, California.
The poems in Linda Elkin’s Navigation capture the luminous inner being of all things with a quiet, direct music. They faithfully record a moment of revelation in the lives of lovers or track the genesis of an artwork in supple language which speaks eloquently for authentic observation and genuine surprise. The stories they tell ring true. These lyrics embody an emotional journey in which details shine forth like lighthouses along a rugged coast. Taking us from here to there with a minimum of fuss, they swing into action in precisely those places where words often fail. “Sex,” writes the poet, “takes up more space/ than the space it actually happens in.” Similarly, these dignified, savvy voyages make our world much larger, and richer, than it usually is.
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