The Luba Poems [Paperback]

Stevensian opulence of imagination reigns in these delicious poems, which offers a smorgasbord of word-delights. I know no contemporary poet whose poems reveal such obvious pleasure in their own existence. Everything Luba looks on turns to song.
Peter Cooley, Senior Mellon Professorship of English, Tulane University
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InThe Luba PoemsColette Inez has dreamt a twenty-first century Mr. Cogito. Who is the elusive Luba? She gallops past arenas filled with lovers. / They clock her speed. She awakens to a white wormhole / where hymns drift upward like smoke. As these wild, playful, mysteriously distanced poems whirl through cultures, geographies, religion and the night sky, the irreducible strangeness of human identity deepens to a final I. IfJe est un autrewere a book, this would be it.The Luba Poemsis a marvelous addition to a compelling oevre.
D. Nurkse, author ofA Night in Brooklyn
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Colette Inez has long been one of my favorite poets. Here she writes movingly of many themes and varied experiences of the fictive Luba, a woman of ever-changing bubbles of ideas and images, a real person, yet imagined and sometimes surreal. The atmosphere is scented with blue jazz in riffs and ragtime medleys. The quest of Lubas exuberant, endlessly curious and adventurous personality is fired by a sense of deep time. Between moments of the past and fervid anticipation of what the stars might teach us, Luba prevails. The final poem, The Singers, echoes the books response to l£$