The Underlook By Helen Seymour Translation Strangely Happy (2011)

Strangely Happy (2011)

And he shares with many of his characters a star-gazing capacity for belief

In the poems that follow that metaphorical gesture repeats and may be interpreted idiosyncratically by separate readers

where several of the poems are placed

a place he loves even as he learns his own privilege and foreignness

The Underlook By Helen Seymour Translation Strangely Happy (2011)The Underlook balances precariously between the real and the surreal. Informed by experiences of physical disability, surgery, and medical trauma, this collection articulates a life lived under the bed, at the bottom of a well, in the glances exchanged between doctors. The poems revel in the uncanny and in the power of ignored or repressed spaces, summoning us under to listen crouch down press [a] hand against the white gloss shuddering.