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    Florine Melnyk Suspended Imagination 9781935402367 """Suspended Imagination is a wild read.  Risky, provocative, cheerfully over-the-edge, at their best these poems are filled with music, humor, and imagination.  Always alert for new ways to give form to the wild and strange, Florine Melnyk offers two of the most high-spirited sestinas you'll ever come across and throws in a fine nonce-sestina that engages the reader in a sort of mad treasure hunt for fun and meaning."" Theodore Deppe, author of Orpheus on the Red Line, Tupelo Press, 2009. About Suspended Imagination If there exists a magical hinge (as surely there must in the imagination) by which thought and language open each other’s door, Florine Melnyk’s poems swing by way of it. Whether opening onto spaces of meditative silence or smitten wordsmithery, employing words precisely distilled or richly mixed and stirred, the poems in Suspended Imagination invite us to dwell in the possibilities to be found in “a language no longer languishing.” --Jeanne Marie Beaumont Florine Melnyk writes poems that continually raise the word ante. She has the wit and imagination to make good on every improvisation and to never let the energy flag. Within the panache dwells a rarity, a philosopher-poet who can take on the likes of Descartes and walk away smiling. —Baron Wormser " Author Bio: Florine Melnyk was born and raised in Buffalo, New York. She earned an MFA from the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast program. She has traveled to and studied in Ireland, where she drank severeal pints of guinness and saw a leprechaun (not necessarily in that order). She currently lives with her two daughters Siobhan and Shannon, a bull-dog Bella, two cats Peter and Mary Cecilia O’ Malley, and some mice whose numbers vary daily.

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    Florine Melnyk Suspended Imagination 9781935402367 """Suspended Imagination is a wild read.  Risky, provocative, cheerfully over-the-edge, at their best these poems are filled with music, humor, and imagination.  Always alert for new ways to give form to the wild and strange, Florine Melnyk offers two of the most high-spirited sestinas you'll ever come across and throws in a fine nonce-sestina that engages the reader in a sort of mad treasure hunt for fun and meaning."" Theodore Deppe, author of Orpheus on the Red Line, Tupelo Press, 2009. About Suspended Imagination If there exists a magical hinge (as surely there must in the imagination) by which thought and language open each other’s door, Florine Melnyk’s poems swing by way of it. Whether opening onto spaces of meditative silence or smitten wordsmithery, employing words precisely distilled or richly mixed and stirred, the poems in Suspended Imagination invite us to dwell in the possibilities to be found in “a language no longer languishing.” --Jeanne Marie Beaumont Florine Melnyk writes poems that continually raise the word ante. She has the wit and imagination to make good on every improvisation and to never let the energy flag. Within the panache dwells a rarity, a philosopher-poet who can take on the likes of Descartes and walk away smiling. —Baron Wormser " Author Bio: Florine Melnyk was born and raised in Buffalo, New York. She earned an MFA from the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast program. She has traveled to and studied in Ireland, where she drank severeal pints of guinness and saw a leprechaun (not necessarily in that order). She currently lives with her two daughters Siobhan and Shannon, a bull-dog Bella, two cats Peter and Mary Cecilia O’ Malley, and some mice whose numbers vary daily.

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    Florine Melnyk Suspended Imagination 9781935402367 """Suspended Imagination is a wild read.  Risky, provocative, cheerfully over-the-edge, at their best these poems are filled with music, humor, and imagination.  Always alert for new ways to give form to the wild and strange, Florine Melnyk offers two of the most high-spirited sestinas you'll ever come across and throws in a fine nonce-sestina that engages the reader in a sort of mad treasure hunt for fun and meaning."" Theodore Deppe, author of Orpheus on the Red Line, Tupelo Press, 2009. About Suspended Imagination If there exists a magical hinge (as surely there must in the imagination) by which thought and language open each other’s door, Florine Melnyk’s poems swing by way of it. Whether opening onto spaces of meditative silence or smitten wordsmithery, employing words precisely distilled or richly mixed and stirred, the poems in Suspended Imagination invite us to dwell in the possibilities to be found in “a language no longer languishing.” --Jeanne Marie Beaumont Florine Melnyk writes poems that continually raise the word ante. She has the wit and imagination to make good on every improvisation and to never let the energy flag. Within the panache dwells a rarity, a philosopher-poet who can take on the likes of Descartes and walk away smiling. —Baron Wormser " Author Bio: Florine Melnyk was born and raised in Buffalo, New York. She earned an MFA from the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast program. She has traveled to and studied in Ireland, where she drank severeal pints of guinness and saw a leprechaun (not necessarily in that order). She currently lives with her two daughters Siobhan and Shannon, a bull-dog Bella, two cats Peter and Mary Cecilia O’ Malley, and some mice whose numbers vary daily.

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    Suspended

    Imagination

    Florine Melnyk

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    Buffalo, New York

    Suspended Imagination by Florine Melnyk Copyright 2010 Published by BlazeVOX [books] All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced without the publishers written permission, except for brief quotations in reviews. Printed in the United States of America Book design by Geoffrey Gatza First Edition ISBN: 9781935402367 Library of Congress Control Number 2009904218

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    Because the shiny lamp said to keep writing and the door remained open showing the shadows lurking in the short hallway to the stairs leading up up up then down and up again curving and curving breathing dust from wood cracks with corridors of forgotten portraits competing for light attention variation whispered words and a language no longer languishing lifting to new heights over the rooftops curling into the smoke of chimneys rising to the clouds gathering traveling to other worlds and releasing finally as rain falling falling

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    Meaning *

    * Italicized text in the beginning of each segment is from Meditations on First Philosophy by Descartes

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    Several years have now elapsed since I first became aware that I had accepted

    Creation implied cast lovers shatter a construct knowledge of inculpable Being(s) unforeseeable damage artless sculptor tinged, opaque (un) like prism refracting drop of water we originate to struggle and vanquish or just hold on

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    even from my youth, many false opinions for true, and that consequently what I afterward based on

    pulmonary cell structure was hidden

    social malfunction metastasized red-white clamor against starry multitudinous blue states represent (ed) a chamber among minion(s) scarlet barren to present tense Valentine mitosis

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    such principles was [were] highly doubtful; and from that time I was convinced of the

    Signification of black umbrellas waiting restless gestures frantic moments recall lovemaking revelations arch of

    perplexing conniption contained,

    illusion of hope(lessness)

    You do excite me

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