| WhiteA*out: n. a surface condition . . . in which no object casts a shadow, the horizon cannot beseen, and only dark objects are discernible . . .Whiteout: when the heavy weather of daily life establishes the measure of the measureless, when the predatory nature of the accidental conjures cowboys and the comatose, when the sickly sweet pop of life underfoot contrasts the televised image, shrinking to a pinprick.Whiteout: calques and towers, twin polar storms, falling, burning.Whiteout:",a book of white nothing.",George Murray's sixth collection has been a decade in the making. At once taut, tender and terrifying, haunted and haunting, Whiteout shatters convention in the collision of order and rage, formlessness and hard-won serenity. |
