Earliest Worlds: Two Books by Eleni Sikelianos

The velocity of language, the ferocity of poetry unearth our most thinking, feeling, erotic selves in this powerful debut.

This impressive debut of a major new voice in poetry begins with Blue Guide, a poem cycle of meditations on light and dark, probing theopposing/complementary nature of these universal principles and their manifestation through words. "In Of Sun, Of History, Of Seeing," the oracular power of language fuels the journey between constellations shimmering above and the mind s...