Kathleen Jesme: the Plum-Stone Game February 3, 2009

In her third book of poems, Kathleen Jesme asks what happens if the ordinary ways of knowing are taken away--if one is suddenly unable to see or hear or has been stripped of the familiar past? What begins to show through when absence (or darkness) creates a different inner landscape? In five distinct but interconnected poem cycles, Jesme excavates these inner landscapes and discovers word artifacts to reveal new directions to dig, always bringing the reader somewhere unexpected.