Haste: Poems

Haste
Poems
LISA ORME BICKMORE
Paperback. 64 Pages. / 1-56085-061-2 / $10.95

How does one reconcile competing emotions, such as the intense love and concurrent claustrophobia that one can feel toward one's spouse, or the longing and simultaneous indifference engendered by thinking about the afterlife, or the sweet and haunting memories of childhood? In probing such elusive spaces, Lisa Orme Bickmore finds that she is gazing on figures that align and collapse, and then realign. She experiences flashes of insight that bridge the past to the future, that link mortality to immortality. Meditative, at the same time sensual, Bickmore's verses are like dreams. She is as much apart from life as she is attuned to it, which is perhaps the special burden--and gift--that poets possess and share.

Lisa Orme Bickmore is a professor of English at Salt Lake Community College. She has published in scholarly and literary journals, received a Utah Arts Council award for poetry, and was an invited guest participant in the prestigeous Westminster College poetry series. She reads regularly at CityArts and elsewhere. She and her husband, John McCormick, live in Salt Lake City.