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Poetry

Heliotropic

By Doug Bootes

Finishing Line Press, May 2024

In an epigraph to his latest poetry chapbook, Doug Bootes (Saponi Descendant) writes that, “The natural search for light can be referred to as the ‘heliotropic effect,’ which simply means that every living system has a tendency towards light and away from darkness, or a tendency towards that which is life-giving and away from that which endangers life.” This is the principle that guides the reader through his poems, refracting that axiom of light-seeking through the prisms of nature and the human eye…Bootes’ language is mesmerizing, enveloping his reader in an experience of interiority that is deeply rooted in the land. His poems alternate between aural and narrative privilege, sometimes sweeping the reader away on a current of language, sometimes pausing to offer flashes of autobiography and story with characteristic precision and humor. The book has a restless quality, carrying the reader from the littoral regions of the Southern US to the interstate, to the desert.

Heliotropic explores language, culture and land with a luminous impulse that draws the reader through the book much as the sun draws plants toward its light. He offers lyrical portraits of people and places, beings and times, illuminating histories and memories while examining how they distort. Across scenes grand and mundane, Bootes honors his subjects with specificity and warmth. Light and shadow play through these scenes in different guises, layering meaning with each appearance. Now, as the light begins to change between seasons, Heliotropic offers the perfect meditation. (Annabella Farmer)

Santa Fe Reporter