Book Description2005 Winner, Walt McDonald First-Book Series in Poetry The poems in Slag begin with everyday experiences?a glance at a construction site or the boredom of waiting for a bus?and then use such unpromising events to explore what Mexican poet Octavio Paz once called "the dark, forgotten miracle of being alive." Whether meditating on New York?s diamond district or the death of the last person to have known Van Gogh, Mark Sullivan?s lyric consciousness expands from initial points of contact to ever-broadening associations. The result is an evocative, reflective poetry that recognizes in the slow advance of the loris across its Bronx Zoo cage what it means "to love the world or to fear / it." Sullivan pays special attentionto animals and the natural world, to the visual arts, and to the relentless stimulation of the nation?s largest city, his free verse creating a lucid language where slam dunks and Zeno?s paradoxes coexist, where the stillness...

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