Acts of Love

Wisconsin Bookwatch, August, 2004

Acts Of Love

Edgar Gariel Silex

Curbstone Press

321 Jackson St., Willimantic, CT 06226

1931896062 $13.95 www.curbstone.org

Acts Of Love is author and poet Edgar Gabriel Silex's most recent compilation and perfectly showcases his impressive gift with language in an almost "stream of consciousness" verse that can unflinching reveal the problematic side of human relationships and the obtainable necessity of emotional healing and the salvational hope of enduring love. Girl on the Threshold: she is sitting on the threshold/outside the blue doors to her house/wearing Love's red dress/bright and vibrating heart-red/against a big blue sky of doors/the bombs have been falling all night/shots can be heard everywhere/how long has she been waiting there/for her father the civil officers/who went out to defend their home/her gaze is fixed down the street/toward the way he always returns/how long will she be waiting there/pensively sucking on her thumb

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