Position & Relation

by Radfar, India Hixon

• ISBN13: 9781581771107
• ISBN10: 158177110X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-07-15
• Publisher: Barrytown/Station Hill Press, Inc.

Summary

This lovely book of poems, written in Woodstock, NY, carries inspiration from various places. The book, prefaced by '12 Poems That Were Never Written, ' is divided into three sections, 'Natural Megaron, ' 'Preposition Poems' and 'Lung Poems, ' corresponding to three distinctive methods Radfar used to write her way into time and space: settling down with her journal on a hilly overlook after a 30 minute walk; removing prepositions while still managing to talk about her relation to space; writing at a fixed time in the middle of the night. In going as far as she can in each of these disparate directions, she summons, with a surprising degree of certitude, a sense of how this specific place once affected her writing and her life. One of the poems included is: "Position, I have sought your proper place have landed snake-like your tumescent rock pile grassy wild oracular Position, I can't speak all the places you are my tendency my perpetual circumstance I will come, give meentrance"

Author Biography

India Hixon Radfar, poet and former resident of Woodstock, NY, has resettled in the Los Angeles area with her husband, Bernard, where they continue to raise their son, Aram, and their new daughter, Leila, amidst an extended Persian family.