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Innovative and energetic, this is Alben's first collection. There are surprises at the turn of every line. Her poems spit themselves like cherry stones through the windows of their words and bounce out into the world, finding and striking new targets in ways that only good poems can do. Intensely visual, erotically charged and linguistically adventurous, they explore with deft humour and poise the ways we rub along together both as lovers and travellers across the shifting borders of multi-media, international life, where belonging is difficult but the impulse to connect remains as powerful as ever - Language is a map and I admire your paperclips (from 'Modern Love Affair').
Contents
Country / 14, The View / 18, One Moon-shaped Cake / 19, Tongue and Groove / 20, Why / 21, Industrial Technologist / 22, Ai! Ai! Pianissimo / 23, The Post Box / 24, Parakeet Park / 25, The Window / 26 Stretto / 28, The Empty Bath / 29, Skimming Stones / 30, Paul Celan Act IV Scene III / 32, Last of the Snow / 33, We dug the tunnel; B hid the soil / 34, The Tent / 36, Take-away Heart / 37, Fianchetto / 38, Drawing in Ink / 40, A Message on her Machine / 41, Bucking Bronco / 42, Thursday's News / 43, Palmistry / 44, Lepidopterist / 45, The Light Switch / 46, simon says / 48, Stuffing for Being / 49, What had made her laugh out loud / 50, Memory of Childhood / 51, And as I'm being down here on my knees anyway, dear god / 52, Mental or Rental / 54, Scene III / 55, Where They Choose to Meet / 56, [The fruit having] a groove down one side / 58, Oh! L'eau est claire / 59, Particulars She Exhibits / 60, 'The tickets to the places - ' / 61, once more / 62, To the Highest Bidder / 63, Thank you, and please remain seated until the fasten your seatbelt sign has been switched off / 64, Biographical note / 69
