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Open Books: Event Archive
October 27, 2005 07:30 PM
LILLIAS BEVER
Ms. Bever joins us to read from her first book, Bellini in Istanbul,
which received the Tupelo Press Judge's Prize. Beautiful and sometimes
harrowing is the world depicted in these poems. The book's opening section
is aptly titled "Excavation" and introduces archaeological themes. "[M]y
mind a delicate / and insistent tool," she writes, and indeed it is, whether
it be uncovering the knife-edge of love, the tenuous days of a 15th century
painter in a murderous sultan's court, or the myriad forms of blue in
Istanbul. Her poems are clearly contemporary, yet they are also stained by
the ancient (she has even written her own fragments). The result is a richly
compelling and even on occasion bracingly unsettling collection.
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