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 Celia
Bland's poetry has some of the vivid characterization and the black humor
of contemporary novels, but her spare music insists upon the lyrical epiphanies
of the instant; those small lonesome moments of understanding. One could
say that she creates out of the ordinary, out of the everyday tragedies
and comedies, a poetry that links our daily routines to the archaic past.
Hers are the verses of the bedroom, the changing table and the kitchen
table, the poetry of what can never be said, and what must be said. "We
need poems such as these," wrote Annie Wright, "to jolt us, to look at
our own lives more carefully and, for some, to know that one is not alone
in the world..."
Publications featuring poems
from Soft Box include Natural Bridge, Bard
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