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Shimmering with saturated color and heat, this title features a sequence of memory poems about growing up in the tropics, threaded through the myth of Caliban from Shakespeare's "The Tempest". It gives entry to a place of blue possibility and daily undoing, where the sting of salt-fresh air is compounded by the ache of displacement and loss.

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"Surez 's suffering, beachcombing savage merges with the island itself to form the consciousness that flows within these richly descriptive, sometimes melancholy, sometimes surreal lyrics... Surez 's poems of place and displacement are sensual, mythic, and quietly trenchant." -- Booklist ADVANCE PRAISE "Virgil Surez is a poet of passion, energy, and amplitude. Words pour from him in a torrent. Jump into the flood of these poems. Enjoy the ride." -- Charles Harper Webb, author of Reading the Water

Guide to the Blue Tongue

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      Publisher: MO - University of Illinois Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 2/19/2002 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780252070501, 978-0252070501
      ISBN10: 025207050X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Shimmering with saturated color and heat, this title features a sequence of memory poems about growing up in the tropics, threaded through the myth of Caliban from Shakespeare's "The Tempest". It gives entry to a place of blue possibility and daily undoing, where the sting of salt-fresh air is compounded by the ache of displacement and loss.

      Trade Review
      "Surez 's suffering, beachcombing savage merges with the island itself to form the consciousness that flows within these richly descriptive, sometimes melancholy, sometimes surreal lyrics... Surez 's poems of place and displacement are sensual, mythic, and quietly trenchant." -- Booklist ADVANCE PRAISE "Virgil Surez is a poet of passion, energy, and amplitude. Words pour from him in a torrent. Jump into the flood of these poems. Enjoy the ride." -- Charles Harper Webb, author of Reading the Water

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