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The Cabinetmaker's Window

Poems

Steve ScafidiSeries: Southern Messenger Poets
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Pages
80
Year
2014
Language
English
Publisher
LSU Press

About

"Dying never / ends for us. It only slowly rearranges us," writes Steve Scafidi in his poignant new collection. Inspired by his own work as a cabinetmaker - defined by the peppery dust from the woodworker planing a walnut board, turning an oak spindle at the lathe, or honing chisels while gazing out a window - Scafidi's poems reveal both the tenuous and the everlasting nature of existence.

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  • General
  • Poetry
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  • SeriesSouthern Messenger Poets

    Reviews

    "Scafidi deftly confronts both death and disaster in a manner that is as hilarious as it is serious.... In Scafidi's universe, it's all right to be a little off-center, because it is in the common, in the everyday that he finds dignity and communion."
    Karla Huston, Library Journal
    "This poet engages life on multiple levels -- not complacent in the presence of suffering and not ignoring injustice, but open to the possibilities of grace, of beauty, of atonement."
    Philip Belcher, Southern Quarterly
    "When I tell you [Scafidi] is a poet of impressive reach and Elizabethan exuberance, you may take me at my word. Imaginatively adroit, formally outfitted without necessarily being formally complex, his work inhabits a large cognitive and imagistic space where ostensible subjects -- snakes and weasels, a burning truck, the spruce front of a violin -- grow into emanations or strands of implication."
    David Rigsbee, Cortland Review

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