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The
Cloud of Knowable Things
Poems
by Elaine Equi
"Friend to objects, saints and dead celebrities alike, Elaine Equi is the real McCoy: a keeper of the sacred flame of language-joy. Her work re-alerts us to our earliest love of words as toys, jewels, confections. In doing so she juices up our thinking. What better than writing that delights as it sharpens the mind? You've heard of 'smart drinks' or 'smart drugs,' said to chemically boost the intellect? [Hers] are truly smart poems."
— LA Weekly
Nuanced, rich in meaning, and innately accessible, these poems revel in Elaine Equi's maturity of technique and vision. In this collection, we find her deftly exploring her surroundings and taking a close look at the way we inhabit things and the way they inhabit us. Clear yet complex, these poems animate the things closest to us—objects, fantasies, culture high and low. As Elaine Equi states, "Many writers think the goal of writing is to discover the unknown, but this book argues that to discover the known is even more interesting."
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