Corrinne clegg hales biography of barack

Praise for Separate Escapes

Corrinne Clegg Hales writes about the American West, that endless blue-sky hope where we have all waited and wandered.

Corrinne clegg hales biography of barack

This is a beautiful, bitter book. Its individual, austere longing to live is so evident in every image, every blossom, every mouth, every tale that her litany of broken bodies and scatter of harms seems, at last, no more than the mysteries we have all known and will know again and again in hunger and betrayal and memory’s dimming.

Her poems, compelling histories, local testimonies, handfuls of bees frozen, then alive, stinging like love, or the furious assaults of atomic radiation, hold our attention because, like a sharper’s three shells with one pea, they reveal secrets within our grasp, which are yet never quite possessed.

A deft, musical poet, Hales has the voice of Biblical character, passion, restraint, courage, fear, charm, endurance, the very metaphor of desire, here the numinous shadow of wh