Slag

The poems in Slag begin with everyday experiences-a glance at a construction site or the boredom of waiting for a bus-and then use such unpromising events to explore what Mexican poet Octavio Paz once called "the dark, forgotten miracle of being alive." Whether meditating on New York's diamond district or the death of the last person to have known Van Gogh, Mark Sullivan's lyric consciousness expands from initial points of contact to ever-broadening associations. The result is an evocative, reflective poetry that recognizes in the slow advance of the loris across its Bronx Zoo cage what it means "to love the world or to fear / it."Sullivan, Mark is the author of 'Slag', published 2005 under ISBN 9780896725478 and ISBN 0896725472.