Mount Soledad

Poetry. In MOUNT SOLEDAD Harry Polkinhorn uses his ill-fated romance with a Cuban-American woman to illuminate the themes of love and money, employing in the opening pages the conceits associated with the language of love before shifting these rhetorical tropes into a kind of vacillating syntax. Lines paraphrasing the poetry of medieval troubadours circulate like undead currency in a whirlwind of non sequiturs: "fading away perhaps into an explosion of resemblances her voice disconnected by winds of a disappearing language unhooked into fog, into people's eyes that have seen water and love going away bird wings incautious negatives"