Space Walk（ISBN=） 英文原版

　　Space Walk blasts off into realms of experience that show the
imagination’s limitless capacity to be both brutal and uplifting.
While many of the poems in this daring collection confront head-on
our current American realities of empire, state violence, the
endless “crisis-chatter” of talking heads, and the eerie,
weightless feeling of impending catastrophe, they are tethered to
the gravitational pull of love and hope. In Sleigh’s poems, rocket
motors and pancake houses, space stations and mom’s kitchen,
terrorist organizations and Sundays in a museum are all part of
love’s intergalactic amplitude. As the poet writes in “After
Nietzsche,” “In the face that must conceal / what is necessary / to
bear / love appears in the face / of the face of what is
necessary.” Hailing Tom Sleigh’s work, the Los Angeles Times writes
that he “stakes a claim on the planet of the imagination.” In The
New Yorker’s words, he “asserts the importance of poetry itself,”
showing us in Space Walk its restorative, recuperative powers.

　　Tom Sleigh has published three collections of poetry, After
One, The Chain and Waking, and The Dreamhouse. The Dreamhouse was a
finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Sleigh also served
as a poetry judge for the National Book Award. He is a professor of
English at Dartmouth College. He lives in Cambridge,
Massachusetts.