Sorrow's Kitchen

by James Sallis

Overview

Slightly surrealistic, meditative, elegiac, this collection of poetry from author James Sallis is concerned with aging, relationships, loss, and love. It is poetry written and read late at night and in the early morning hours, when, sleepless, we think about life and what went wrong. Sallis is a noir genre mystery writer and the feeling of that genre is evident here-despair that is occasionally surprised by joy. For these poems are not dark and depressing, despite the subject matter; they are suffused with happiness, with the celebration of everyday events. They are the reflections of an author in full command of the language, who fully recognizes life's triumphs as well as life's losses.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780870135620
Publisher:	Michigan State University Press
Publication date:	11/30/2000
Pages:	114
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

James Sallis after attending Tulane University, moved to London in the mid-60s and edited the legendary magazine New Worlds. Author of the much acclaimed Lew Griffin novels, his shorter work continues to be published regularly in literary journals such as Poetry East, The Ohio Review,High Plains Literary Review, Washington Post Book World, and Boston Review.