Book
how-dumb-the-stars
(2001)
Abstract
Francine Conley’s poems are gifts of substance and truth wrapped in tantalizing metaphors. Conley is thoroughly at home in the quirky mysteries of experience where there are many meanings, often best spoken in parables. Light, she seems to say, is found in embracing – rather than dissecting – the mystery. “Why do you drill the dark for answers,/ …drive around/and around in search of a street/whose path, like a perfectly peeled apple,/might explain what we think, what is?” Conley gives us rich moments of connection and understanding, but these are not so much captured as revealed. “Unintentional as wind chimes we struck…./”It was then the air grew/greater than both of us and sang,….” The air of Conley’s poems sings for the reader, too, and offers many satisfying intimations of “what is.”
Keywords
- poetry,
- women writers
Disciplines
Publication Date
Fall September 1, 2001
Publisher
https://www.library.wisc.edu/parallelpress/
Citation Information
Francine Conley. how-dumb-the-stars. Madison(2001) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/francine-conley/2/