The Watchers

In the world of Memye Curtis Tuckers poetry the observed are on display ontrial on guard or disappearing and often changed by the eyes upon them thegazers are b... » 

In the world of Memye Curtis Tuckers poetry the observed are on display ontrial on guard or disappearing and often changed by the eyes upon them thegazers are benevolent threatening judgmental separate invisible.There is in the poems a surface accessibility mysteries in this book are notpuzzles or ellipses but moving revelations of paradox and unendingpossibilities. And while many are meditative there is always the tug of thenarrative impulse.Northrop Frye has remarked upon the centrality of the epigram in Tuckerswriting. But beyond the epigrammatic quality and the elegiac stance of much ofher work whether her subject matter is a turkey caller or a town covered overby an airport runway is the hope of holding on even if provisionally to whatdisappears by watching as it is transformed through memory and art into afugue a twisting leap pigment the color of flame. «