Music For Landing Planes By.Music For Landing Planes By Eireann Lorsung Milkweed Editions 1011 Washington Avenue South, #300, Minneapolis, MN 55415-1246 1571314288, $14.00 www.milkweed milkweed, common name for members of the Asclepiadaceae, a family of mostly perennial herbs and shrubs characterized by milky sap, a tuft of silky hairs attached to the seed (for wind distribution), and (usually) a climbing habit. .org 1-800-520-6455 "Music For Landing Planes By" is the debut publication of poetry by Eireann Lorsung who takes as her themes the makers, methods, and materials associates with common, daily objects we are all familiar with. Loursung's free verse poetry deftly combines art and artifact in a truly literate and sometimes whimsical use of language that engages the reader's imagination and appreciation from beginning to end. 'Dressmaker': Nothing touches like tan velvet touches/the palm. Now the cracks come, because what gives/without taking?--doesn't exist. Say//you forget what is lanolin lanolin, greasy, yellow substance extracted from wool. When purified, it is used as a base for ointments and creams, as a lubricant, and in finishing and preserving leather. It is also a constituent of some varnishes and paints. , what is raw about fleece/uncarded & unwashed. Say the silver feel/of charmeuse char·meuse n. A satin-finished silk fabric. [French, trade name, from charmeuse, charmer, seductress, from charmer, to charm, from charme, charm lines your sleep. You've lost//what there was before pins & needles, sound/a scissors scissors Cutting instrument or tool consisting of a pair of opposed metal blades that meet and cut when the handles at their ends are brought together. Modern scissors are of two types: the more usual pivoted blades have a rivet or screw connection between the cutting ends makes through cloth on a hardwood floor, thick waist of the dressmaker's dummy. don't tell me//any more. Without Burano lace, without cinnabar/strung on a cuff, shantung Shantung: see Shandong, China. and satin and netting and swiss:/no rich man, no camel, no needle's threatening eye. |
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