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Box of Blue Horses

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For all the people who have ever closed off or tamped down some essential part of themselves—imagination, a talent, a passion—and then wished to have that aspect “unboxed,” this book is worth examination.

Here, in a cycle of 44 poems about a herd of blue horses and the persona’s quest to track them, Lisa Graley explores the crippling effects of stifling creative impulses as well as the tensions, costs, and joys involved in living an unfettered and imaginative life.

The book is a meditation on the fear of creativity. But it is a meditation in the form of a story about magnificient blue horses, inspired, in part, by the blue horse paintings of the German expressionist Franz Marc. Stylistically, the volume is an experimental blurring of genres, having at its heart the musicality of lyric poetry while incorporating the complex characterization and narrative story arc you might find in a novel.

Language: English

Pages: 102

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Gival Press

Release: October 10, 2013

ISBN: 1928589863

ISBN 13: 9781928589860

Box of Blue Horses

3/5 ( ratings)

For all the people who have ever closed off or tamped down some essential part of themselves—imagination, a talent, a passion—and then wished to have that aspect “unboxed,” this book is worth examination.

Here, in a cycle of 44 poems about a herd of blue horses and the persona’s quest to track them, Lisa Graley explores the crippling effects of stifling creative impulses as well as the tensions, costs, and joys involved in living an unfettered and imaginative life.

The book is a meditation on the fear of creativity. But it is a meditation in the form of a story about magnificient blue horses, inspired, in part, by the blue horse paintings of the German expressionist Franz Marc. Stylistically, the volume is an experimental blurring of genres, having at its heart the musicality of lyric poetry while incorporating the complex characterization and narrative story arc you might find in a novel.

Language: English

Pages: 102

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Gival Press

Release: October 10, 2013

ISBN: 1928589863

ISBN 13: 9781928589860

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