Poetry by Eleni Sikelianos
April 30, 2013 5.5 x 8.25 124 pages 978-1-56689-324-4
Beautifully crafted poems that investigate the intersections of the living and the dead in stunningly simple language.
The Loving Detail of the Living& the Dead inhabits the collisions, sometimes at the atomic level, sometimes at the level of the preposition, between past, present, and future. Doppelgangers, family, friends, and a semi-oracular figure named Charlene move between worlds, shifting forms in an overlapping arrangement of time and memory, as each organ, atom, and word casts its traveling shadow across the screen.
About the Author
is the author of six books of poetry, most recently The Loving Detail of the Living& the Dead and The California Poem, which was a Barnes & Noble Best of the Year, as well as hybrid memoirs, The Book of Jon and You Animal Machine (The Golden Greek). Sikelianos teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Denver. A California native, longtime New Yorker, and world traveler, she now lives in Boulder with her husband, the novelist Laird Hunt, and their daughter, Eva Grace.