tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-879943265889828379.post438118341477685783..comments2023-10-29T10:22:23.026-04:00Comments on blood milk blog: At Night: Lisa Ciccarellobloodmilk.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17567670584492365063noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-879943265889828379.post-54957809201886264642015-10-18T15:51:26.566-04:002015-10-18T15:51:26.566-04:00That sounds like a really good book, thanks for sh...That sounds like a really good book, thanks for sharing! Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10116502904613772534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-879943265889828379.post-43461128862735543502015-10-08T00:11:21.069-04:002015-10-08T00:11:21.069-04:00I really enjoyed how each poem seemed to live its ...I really enjoyed how each poem seemed to live its own life. Not that I was expecting At Night to drag on, but cleverly sets the tone immediately. I really appreciate the structure of each poem as well. It was different and forced me to reread some poems multiple times to make sure I didn't just glaze over it too quickly.<br /><br />I'm not too familiar with how to respond to poetry. Most of the time, I just try to enjoy the ride.<br /><br />- MarylynMarylynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12349528966336390005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-879943265889828379.post-64815251676870996762015-09-09T01:04:51.537-04:002015-09-09T01:04:51.537-04:00This collection of poems was on my 'lust list&...This collection of poems was on my 'lust list' since you first mentioned it to me, so I was quite happy that you chose 'at night' as one of this months reads, giving me a necessity to purchase a copy. <br /><br />Firstly, I adore books that have this texture to the cover. They add a beautifully sensual nature to holding and reading whichever book they cloak; it is a detail I always appreciate. The added sensual layer to the book itself paired very well with the nature of the collection: silky, otherworldly, unexplainable. <br /><br />I agree about the 'non titled' poems, I regarded them as almost a continuing prose. Some felt like a flickering candle on the other side of a looking glass; allowing us glimpses into a strange land, always of the same landscape, but the tilt of the light shifts perspectives in minuet but clear ways, making once familiar angles look new and strange. <br />I was surprised when, coming to the back of the text once the last line had been consumed, I found that she referred to each poem by their first line. Upon reflection, they seemed sum up each page perfectly. <br />As a writer of songs, which have a constant need to be 'titled', the ease and simplicity of crowning each first line really inspired me.<br /><br />Throughout the collection, there were some lines that ensnared me so deeply that I have highlighted them and transcribed them into my notebook, such as:<br />* 'Every moment is a small strand of notes, a song we sing to the dead. We touch where we sing. We swallow & the song begins again.' (page 52)<br />*'This heart is a mouth.' (page 48)<br />*'Desire grew in me like the horn of an animal. I never slept.' (page 29)<br /><br />The full page that captured me the most was page (23), especially the first sentence: 'Every night the thin layer of night multiplies itself, each nearly transparent layer building up a darkness that is luminous.' <br /><br />The entire collection felt so close, layered, shrouded in a way where nothing is hidden. There was a strong sensuality that took me throughout the collection, seducing the senses into a velvet room, and a select few pages had passages of such visceral sexuality, dripping in aggression and lust, specifically 'the favourite wife dreams' (page 27-30). <br /><br />I also shadowed your feelings of Lisa 'channeling the night and its inhabitants'. <br />Each page felt like standing alone in a dark forest; so alive, so pregnant, so unnerving in it's silence.Jessye Finchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17895801088205739614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-879943265889828379.post-67345007879375875382015-09-05T09:07:59.341-04:002015-09-05T09:07:59.341-04:00I have not yet begun reading this, I was hoping to...I have not yet begun reading this, I was hoping to do so today, along with a few other slim volumes I picked up from Black Ocean. "The moon is all manner of things" - this phrase in and of itself sounds like spell work. I'm entranced already, reading someone else's words about the intended writings.ghoulnexdoorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13400977800359452557noreply@blogger.com