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paper \u2022 60 pages \u2022 15.95
\nISBN-13:\u00a0978-1-935536-29-1<\/p>\n

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The Traps<\/em><\/h1>\n

Louise Mathias<\/h2>\n

In\u00a0The Traps<\/em>, Louise Mathias\u2019s second collection of poetry, the reader is pulled through \u201cborder towns of citrus and blood\u201d and forests that \u201cgrow sparse as a beggar\u2019s dress,\u201d while experiencing the voice of a poet that is unrestrained by a straight-forward narrative thread; rather, Mathias grounds\u00a0The Traps<\/em>\u00a0in a rich mix of imagery. Dense in form, these compact poems exist in an unbridled imaginative realm. Within this realm, the poems dance between beauty and brutality, terror and temptation: \u201cThere\u2019s the theory \/ of the girl; the one that \/\/ was holding wisteria. \/\/ Which, when you get right \/ down to it, strangles trees.\u201d<\/p>\n

The poems\u2019 stunning, often melancholy, lyricism\u2014\u201cthumbs drenched in paraffin wax,\u201d \u201csand-soft husks of a walnut\u201d\u2014creates a sense of loss and longing, and places us in an eerie world marked by a persistently honest voice. This voice sporadically surfaces to confess, \u201cHe posed me like a dead girl and I liked it,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>and to question\u201c<\/i>You\u2019re dying, don\u2019t you know?\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Often focused on imagery of constraint, as the title suggests, \u201cin the narrowest spaces,\u201d and \u201ctied to the rafters,\u201d these poems deftly describe life\u2019s traps\u2014what it means when they hold us tightly and what it means when they let us escape.<\/p>\n

“Admonishment,” from The Traps<\/em>:<\/p>\n

To be impossible, but full\n\nof endless mouth. Same goes\nfor hissing starlight in the daytime. \n\nYou hold\n\nthe slippery kitten 'til it says\nlet me eat\n\nsomebody else's music now.<\/pre>\n
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