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Open Books: Event Archive
October 16, 2007 07:30 PM
CLAUDIA BRIGID MOSHER
The poems that make up Claudia Brigid Mosher’s new book, Lives of the Puzzleworkers ($14.95 Chiasmus) offer the richness, intensity, and totemic quality of dreams or fairytales, but they are unwaveringly warm and humane. The relationships of self to the natural world and of self to others are the book’s recurring themes, in particular the transforming and powerful exchange between partners—“When we touch // I remember my sea-skin. / I was wearing the skirts of the sea. You, you / were unhemming them.” Throughout the collection there is the recognition of existential struggle, yet hopefulness runs there, too, like a golden thread—“Good. We come to a land still large enough for the flawed human heart.” The poems investigate and honor the possibilities for joy and profound understanding—“We hear music whether we can / play it or not.”
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