Midnight Voices by Deborah Ager
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“‘They tell me that your heart / has been found in Iowa, / pumping down Interstate 35. / Do you want it back?’” Because the mind and the intellect desire grounding, the terra firma, Ager’s poems lust for and render place: Florida, Iowa, the dusty hills of Santa Fe, even the cityscapes of New York and San Francisco. But despite the elegant and articulate depiction of these landscapes, the precise and moving description, what rises from these poems is the voice of the magician, a voice able to disarm in its hushed and dangerous whispers, a voice that surprises not only the mind but the imagination. ‘The neighbor’s parrot won’t stop barking.’ And no matter what you are offered, you will not get your heart back. These whispered poems have darker things in mind.”—C. Dale Young, author of The Second Person
"The poems in Deborah Ager’s Midnight Voices deliver to the reader a powerfully metaphorical lyricism that is rare and delicious. These sensual pieces, concise and intense, are strong enough to confront violence head-on without flinching and eerily convince us of its inevitability. Her poems possess a wonderful appetite for a variety of pleasures—for food, for the savor of lost places, for imaginative forays into a fine gallery of personae, without sentimentalizing any of them. These poems invoke the flavors of San Francisco, Santa Fe, Gainesville, Florida, and Lamoni, Iowa, among other locations she imbues with original shading and texture. They are acute and forceful and leave you hungry for more."—Sidney Wade