The Half-Life of Oracles speaks from a way-station between mortals and immortals, a place where the strangeness of daily life meets the intimacy of distant ages. These are poems in which the living and the dead play endless games of musical chairs, emperors and philosophers wage war against rivers, and dusty incantations for achieving immortality are reborn as pick-up lines. By turns tender and thundering, capable of calling the gods down from Olympus if necessary, The Half-Life of Oracles charts with lucidity and intensity the cross-pollination of memory and myth.
Sarah Feldman
has worked as a journalist, as a gallery docent and as an English and Latin teacher. Some of her poems appeared in the anthology Undercurrents: New Voices in Canadian Poetry, edited by Robyn Sarah. She lives in Ottawa. The Half-Life of Oracles is her first collection.
"To read Sarah Feldman's poems is to drink "the water that runs cold from the lake of Memory" and realize that you were thirsty for these lamentations.
— Nora Gould
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