Love's
Funeral, Poems by Eve Wood
These understated poems navigate dark emotional landscapes with a cool interiority and establish this book, Wood's first, as an outstanding debut.
Eve Wood is the author of two chapbooks, Paper Frankenstein
(Beyond Baroque Press), and Correspondence (Gegensatze Press, Austria).
Her poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry 1997, The New Republic,
Poetry, Triquarterly, The Denver Quarterly, The Massachusetts Review, and
other journals. She is the recipient of a Brody Award from The California Community
Foundation and a Jacob Javits Fellowship. Her art criticism appears regularly
in Tema Celeste, Artext, Artweek, and Artnet.com.
Praise for Love's Funeral
"Quickened by passion and imagination, the body of poems that make up Love's Funeral is astoundingly alive. As Eve Wood says in one of her poems, 'The body would be hollow all the time/to be filled in again and again.'"--Mark Strand
"Having avidly followed Eve Wood's poems, I am delighted to read Love's Funeral. Hers is a poetry of philosophic inquiry, the product of a curious and relentless and original sensibility ever seeking correspondences. And there is yearning here--both spiritual and physical. Eve Wood is a wonderful poet, a powerful maker of arresting images like this one that concludes 'The Hollowness of Things':'...the carcass of a seagull, both eyes gone./Hold it up, and see the sky through its head.'"--Stuart Dischell
$16.00, 116 pages, ISBN: 0-9717371-5-0