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Using the same musical sense of language she applies to her translations, Nancy Naomi Carlson masterfully interprets herself in AnInfusion of Violets. The sometimes erotic, sometimes melancholy landscapes she creates as the self-appointed sitar's ragged throat, pitched / between here and when, / caught in quartertones, take our breath away. Carlson describes an interior world where tears can produce so much salt a body floats away, where music tuned to loss descends with rain, and where hope is placed in the kill-cure. Here we encounter Carlson's ex-husbands and luminaries such as Rachmaninoff and Monet, among others. Filled with striking images and sensuous language, AnInfusion of Violets is an evocative mix of formal and free-verse poems.

An Infusion of Violets

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      Publisher Seagull Books London Ltd
      Published 17 September 2019
      ISBN-13 9780857426451
      978-0857426451
      ISBN-10 0857426451

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      Book Synopsis
      Using the same musical sense of language she applies to her translations, Nancy Naomi Carlson masterfully interprets herself in AnInfusion of Violets. The sometimes erotic, sometimes melancholy landscapes she creates as the self-appointed sitar's ragged throat, pitched / between here and when, / caught in quartertones, take our breath away. Carlson describes an interior world where tears can produce so much salt a body floats away, where music tuned to loss descends with rain, and where hope is placed in the kill-cure. Here we encounter Carlson's ex-husbands and luminaries such as Rachmaninoff and Monet, among others. Filled with striking images and sensuous language, AnInfusion of Violets is an evocative mix of formal and free-verse poems.

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