Cloud Banner (Paperback)

Poetry. CLOUD BANNER unfurls with stunning beauty. Annabelle Clippinger's poems illuminate the radiant space of the reader's encounter with them. She embraces being through language on the path we all take toward 'death's syllable' and finds the crucial word to be 'abound.' Her poems startle with a profusion of the senses and precision of inquiry. They are word banners unfolding and streaming through language, making themselves within and from it as clouds are also made within and from elements of the atmosphere, 'arcing / and breaking form'...'arranging an idea so intently that the hand moves to touch it'; all of this she passes on to intimate others, including the reader. -- Heather Thomas, Editor 6ix.