Brenda Hillman
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Brenda Hillman
Loose Sugar is an alchemical manuscript disguised as a collection of poems, or vice versa. Either way, the primal materials of which this book is comprised—love, sex, adolescence, space-time, depression, post-colonialism, and sugar—are movingly and mysteriously transmuted: not into gold, but into a poet’s philosopher’s stone, in which language marries life.
Structurally virtuosic, elaborate without being ornate, Loose Sugar is spun into series within series: each of the five sections has a dual heading (such as “space / time” or “time / work”) in which…
Brenda Hillman
The poems in Brenda Hillman’s new collection, a companion volume to her recent “Death Tratates”, offer a dynamic vision of a universe founded on the tensions between light and dark , existence and non-existence, male and female, spirit and matter. Informed in part by Gnostic concepts of the separate soul in search of its divine origins (“spirit held by matter”), this dualistic vision is cast in contemporary terms and seeks resolution of these tensions through acceptance.
