Amphibious weather: Poems

Science & Math

Standing, Sue

Environment

Zephyr Press

Ploughshares Fall 2003 Guest-Edited by Alice Hoffman

Literature & Fiction

BERG, Elizabeth

PALEY, Grace

Davies, Peter Ho

Martin, Tom

Painter, Pamela

Nelson, Antonya

Phillips, Jayne Anne.

Maguire, Gregory

United States

Ploughshares / Emerson College

<p>The lyrics in Sue Standing’s False Horizon quietly celebrate the lust that is living, the lust that is memory. “The risks we're taking aren’t really risks/ Orange trees. Umbrella Pines. Wisteria.” These poems, some of which are set in the far reaches of Africa and India, argue for the primacy of the present tense, a present tense that shines erotically out from under the beautiful drapery of a manifold rich and cultural world history. Therefore, False Horizons is a book full of sensations. And yet the world remains elusive and mysterious. “In the moonlight I can see the shadow of a tree that is no longer there.” Standing writes a wonderfully understated poetry about the intimacies of experience. She says, “I need a life that won’t diminish.”</p>

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Poetry

Four Way Books

The lyrics in Sue Standing’s False Horizon quietly celebrate the lust that is living, the lust that is memory. These poems, some of which are set in the far reaches of Africa and India, argue for the primacy of the present tense, a present tense that shines erotically out from under the beautiful drapery of a manifold rich and cultural world history. Therefore, False Horizons is a book full of sensations. Standing writes a wonderfully understated poetry about the intimacies of experience. She says, “I need a life that won’t diminish.”

False Horizon

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