"Lindsay's delight in imaginary and unknown worlds, her
compulsion to write exactly what she doesn't know, removes her
poems completely from the tired confessional anecdotalism of so
much narrative poetry."--"Poetry"
"Sarah Lindsay's niche in contemporary poetry might be likened
to that of Joseph Cornell's in modern art. Anything might turn up
in a Cornell box: a stuffed bird, images snipped from old
engravings, dice, corks, a broken watch--anything. Like Cornell,
Lindsay also creates tiny, complete worlds that operate according
to their own particular laws."--"Parnassus"
In her fourth collection of poetry, National Book Award finalist
and Lannan Fellowship winner Sarah Lindsay presents a lyric
menagerie of bizarrely imagined personae and historic figures
revealing their long-held secrets, alongside surprising scientific
subjects and discoveries layered into quirky, dark-edged, sometimes
macabre, always intimate and graceful poems. Imbued with a buoying
sense of respect for the different, the unexpected, and the
challenging, Lindsay's poems are alive with wonder.
And when asked the obvious question about the title, you can
say, "A 'bone-eating snotflower' is the inelegant slang for the
worm-like creature, "Osedax mucofloris," that feeds on the
carcasses of minke whales in the North Sea."
From "Without Warning":
"Elizabeth Bishop leaned on a table, it cracked, both fell to
the floor. A gesturegone sadly awry. This was close to factand
quickly became symbolic, bound to occurin Florida, where she was
surroundedby rotting abundance and greedy insects. One moment a
laughing smile, a graceful handalighting on solid furniture, a
casual shift of weight, the next, undignified splayed legs. The
shell of the tableproved to be stuffed with termite eggs . . .
"
Sarah Lindsay graduated from St. Olaf College and holds a MFA
from UNC Greensboro. Her first book of poetry, "Primate Behavior,"
was a finalist for the National Book Award. She currently works as
a copy editor for Pace Communications, and lives in Greensboro,
North Carolina.
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