Night Scenes

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Author: Lisa Jarnot Publisher: Flood Editions (2008) In Night Scenes, her fourth book of poetry, Lisa Jarnot returns us to the “first melody” through mock archaisms, neologisms, ro llicking rhymes, and childlike delight. Her circling lyrics sing the pleasure of naming itself, with pastoral dreams occasionally giving way to waking life in Brooklyn. Like William Blake’s songs, Night Scenesprivileges wonder over reason in a triumph of the imagination: "Be jumpy / or unhinged / with joy / enlightened / fry cakes / Staten hoy." Show more