the steam sequence
2006
WWPH Poetry Contest Winner Announced!
Washington
Writers’ Publishing House is pleased to announce the publication
of this year’s poetry contest winner, Carly Sachs’s the
steam sequence. This book offers a journey into the mind of a Holocaust
survivor in which past becomes present, as this woman struggles to locate
herself. the steam sequence asks us to examine the silences and the spaces
between memory and reality.
Carly Sachs teaches creative writing at George Washington University. She is the founder and co-curator of the Burlesque Poetry Hour at Bar Rouge in Washington, D.C. Her poems have been published in Alimentum, Another Chicago Magazine, Beltway Quarterly Review, Coconut, goodfoot, No Tell Motel, poemmemoirstory, Runes Review, Wicked Alice, and anthologized in Best American Poetry 2004, Regrets Only (Little Pear Press) and Literary Lunch (Knoxville Writer’s Guild).
In this scorching sequence, language feels almost atomized on the page. Rendered in subtle, haunting rhythms, it implicitly asks what to make of “untranslatable” experience. The story of an un-named woman unfolds: she hears in the sound of a tea kettle “a train . . . she will have to board.” Rich with language that is spare, elliptical, and typographically interesting, this sequence builds with silences and pauses as well, creating an effect at once trance-like and utterly particularized. “Consider that this has been” wrote Primo Levi, and Carly Sachs does just that—this sequence works its faithful magic with patience and quiet care. --Laurie Sheck
62
pages, $12.00 / paperback ISBN 0-931846-81-1
Contact:
Moira Egan, President, 301-652-5636,
moirae333@earthlink.net
62
pages, $12.00 / paperback ISBN 0-931846-81-1
Contact:
Moira Egan, President, 301-652-5636,
moirae333@earthlink.net
or
visit www.amazon.com
Carly Sachs teaches creative writing at George Washington University. Her first collection of poems, the steam sequence won the 2006 Washington Writers’ Publishing House Book Prize and was published in August 2006. She is the founder and co-curator of the Burlesque Poetry Hour at Bar Rouge in Washington, D.C.
Carly Rae Sachs
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Email: carly.sachs@gmail.com
© 2006 Carly Sachs