Bend

By Natasha Sajé

Book Overview

" D]ivulges the spirit of a sensualist and the habits of a contemplative; sometimes vice versa. Colors are separated with the veracity of paint. Shifts in temperature are registered and background noises distinguished, not only for texture's sake but for their essential contribution to the poems' substance. Fine foods are sung and individual words lit. For company Saj summons a curious assortment of lettered forbears including Cotton Mather, Henry Vaughan, Nietzsche, Proust, Gertrude Stein, and Mary Shelley. A virtuous and subtly depraved book is Bend."
-C.D. Wright

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1932195033
• ISBN13: 9781932195033
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Tupelo Press
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Elegant Complexity

Bend is a book that can be judged by its cover, as well as its internal design; both create a sense of delicious, elegant complexity that draws you in and is impossible to resist, like any good vice. Natasha Saje's stunning collection delivers all that you are led to expect. These are smart, intimate, intriguing and deeply realized poems that change you-chemically-as you devour them. You can feel them being absorbed by your senses and mind like a rich oil, the best chocolate, or the return of summer.