This remarkable collection of poems lures you in, at first to stand
alone in the dark, but slowly there comes a hint of light from a
crack beneath a door, then a riot of sensuous intensity as you open
up to the beauty that lies between the folds of words, bursts of
poetic energy that casts warm light over all shadows. From the
Introduction by A.F. Moritz "What is this poetry like? There are
not many precedents for it or bodies of work very similar to it in
English...Bien's word hoard is all his own, though, the way he
animates it, constantly connecting the outer with the inner, the
familiar with the distant, the limited with the vast, the realm of
thought with the realm of life, non-sentient things with sentient
ones... There is scarcely a stanza in Bien's work that does not
contain some instance of these extendings and plunges into each
other performed by things and whole modes of existence. More
notable still is the mysterious ease with which the poems admit the
contradictions present in perceptions, emotions and desires. In a
Time of No Song will impress readers with its poetry of pure
sentience and godlike laughter... The mysticism of the source is
here, but most of all, I think, we will remember the great
enactments and themes of this book through its omnipresent,
brilliant tributes to life. We'll keep it by us for its indelible
celebrations... A dove lands on my shoulder, the unbearable weight
of magicwhat shelters each moment in every other, dies and lives,
homelessly on,an orchard of lovely berries singing on a dying
treeand so all the while, so too, I sing, that which sings me, in a
time of no song.
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