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February 17, 2008 03:00 PM
JEANNE HEUVING
Jeanne Heuving has made language her focus in life, as an English professor, writer of creative and scholarly texts, and founding member of Subtext, Seattle’s innovative writing collective. Her just released poetry collection, Transducer ($16 Chax), is shaped by language that is spare and luminous – “A cat in / Each window / Watching / The moving / Breathing / Alive.” The words on the pages stand out as completely and directly as agates in a sandy stream. The poetry is rich with mystery – “What does not go away this / Mascared eyes, Cleopatra / Charcoaled Marlene Dietrich / Wanting at the grave as it / Leaks light” – and is also highly sensual – “[A] key is a prehensile. / Insert into me and my body / will talk, one-thousand petalled lily.” This is a haunting book; precise and polished, conveying a physical engagement with the inscrutable world.
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