Loom-2012 Open Book Prize
2013
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The word loom calls us to the edges, perhaps even limits, of life―to what appears as the space and means of creation―and to what appears on that horizon, soliciting reflection and response. In Sarah Gridley’s third collection of poems, the word serves as emblem and omen, as signal object of meditation. At the loom―and looming―is The Lady of Shalott―poetic specter of Tennyson’s surfaced―and silenced―anima. Trusting in the deep ambiguities of text and textile, spirit and matter, masculine and feminine, Loom calls the Lady back to life, out of isolation, circumscription, and distraction. A book of poems set against the work of disconnection, Loom searches for reconstructions of gender, dwelling, and the sacred.
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Author
Sarah Gridley
Author · 4 books
BA Harvard University, 1990 MFA University of Montana, 2000 Assistant Professor of English, Case Western Reserve University
