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    Iridescent Pigeons
    Iridescent Pigeons
    Iridescent Pigeons
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    Iridescent Pigeons

    By Candace Walsh

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    Candace Walsh's poems in Iridescent Pigeons, her debut poetry chapbook, serve as a restoration project by articulat

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherYellow Arrow Publishing
    Release dateJul 9, 2024
    ISBN9798330261239
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      Iridescent Pigeons - Candace Walsh

      Praise for Iridescent Pigeons

      "The homing instincts in Candace Walsh’s Iridescent Pigeons are unerring, each poem crafting a sure flight to quiet revelation. Braiding past and present, childhood and motherhood, and loss and love, Walsh’s luminous, acutely observed collection is ultimately a song of praise, honoring the sensuous beauty of everyday life."

      Debra Allbery, author of Fimbul-Winter and Walking Distance

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      Candace Walsh’s soulful, intimate, diction-rich poems span forms, eras, and musics to get down to the sources of this constant memory-flooded movement we call the present.

      Anselm Berrigan, author of Something for Everybody

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      Come for the influence of Virginia Woolf, stay for the ‘Dogs and Their Lesbians’! Inventing new forms and reinvigorating old language, from the opening poem’s index/list-form to homages to Gerard Manley Hopkins’ sacred profane, to Sapphic stanzas, this collection of poems shows us hard-won love and quietly triumphant queer eros and joy. Walsh’s poems vibrate with meter, rhythm, and the language of Romantic poets brought to 21st century relationships. There is music here, all kinds, and we are in good hands with a speaker who reminds herself who she is by ‘scream-singing to the Pixies.’

      Margaret Ray, author of Good Grief, the Ground

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      Candace Walsh’s poems are at once deeply serious and playful. I’m drawn to their voluptuous phrasing, their lexical condensations—the ‘gray-rimmed . . . sapsoft secrets’ of tree limbs—reminiscent of Gerard Manley Hopkins, most notably in her elegantly sensuous pastiche ‘Bowed Beauty.’ There are so many stunning images here, rendered with crystalline precision: ‘a murmuration perch so dense / the barren tree seems leafed until the birds lift off at once.’ Walsh’s speakers are utterly bemused by human relationships, viewing them at times from alien distances: love as perceived by unmatched socks, by seaweed, by stray dogs. Her poems—intensely, warily—celebrate familial, platonic, and romantic bonds, even as they ponder vestiges of the trauma love can leave behind.

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