On the Long Blue Night

<p>In On the Long Blue Night Eliot Cardinaux's debut poetry collection language is a ruined landscape through which the estranged voice of the poem threads a narrow way. As Patrick Pritchett writes this is poetry written at the frayed edge of history ushered by the tutelary spirits of Celan and Mandlestam full of longing and a deep listening to the silence.</p><p><br></p><p>SAMPLE:</p><p>Daily Become Human Again</p><p><em> For Isabel Duarte-Gray</em></p><p><br></p><p>Clutter of branches</p><p>in public</p><p>indifferent</p><p>language</p><p>of a bleak sky</p><p><br></p><p>Won't you take what is given</p><p>pain in the branches</p><p>ringing the gavel</p><p>cradled like a lamb</p><p><br></p><p>The whole </p><p>stretching out</p><p>in a blanket of tears</p><p>a corporeal fugue</p>