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By Ground Up Strength
The trapezius is a three part (tripartite) muscle of the upper back extending from the base of the skull all the way to the lower thoracic spine and laterally from the clavicle to the entire length of the spine of the scapula. Together the two trapezii form a diamond or kite-shaped trapezoid from which the muscle derives its name.
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Although usually discussed as one muscle it is separated into distinct groups of fibers which run in different directions and thus can have slightly different movement roles. These different groups of fibers are usually referred to as the upper, middle, and lower trapezius. Some experts divide the middle section into two parts, the upper middle and lower middle but for the purposes of this trigger point explanation we will consider only three divisions.
In general the action of the trapezius is to elevate and depress the scapula and to rotate the shoulder girdle upward and downwards. The trapezius also extends the head and when all the fibers work together they tend to pull the shoulder upward and adduct the scapula1.
The trapezius fixes the scapula for movement of the shoulder joint and continuously rotates the scapula upward to permit the arm to be raised over the head. The trapezius is most well-known as the "shrug" muscle and it is worked heavily with the traditional bodybuilding shrug exercise as well as during the Olympic lifts and anything that elevates the shoulders. More specific functions of the upper, lower, and middle fibers will be discussed below under "actions".
The trapezius is sometimes considered an "upper back" muscle or a "shoulder" muscle but it is more correctly considered a muscle of the scapulothoracic joint of the shoulder girdle2. The action of the trapezius is closely linked with the levator scapulae in shoulder elevation and it's other synergists in this role are the rhomboids major and minor. Other trapezius muscle relationships are shown in the table below.
The upper trapezius was found by Travell and Simons to be the muscle most often affected by trigger points, which has been confirmed by other authors. The closely related levator scapulae was also found to be the top runner in some studies and this would make sense because the same perpetuating circumstances that affect the trapezius would also affect the levator scapulae.[1]
Trapezius Synergists and Antagonists Muscles by Shoulder Girdle Action
|Trapezius (Upper Fibers)
|Trapezius (Lower Fibers)
|Rhomboid Major
|Pectoralis Minor
|Rhomboid Minor
|Levator Scapula
|Abduction (Protraction)
|Adduction (Retraction)
|Serratus Anterior
|Trapezius (Middle Fibers)
|Pectoralis Minor
|Rhomboid Major
|Rhomboid Minor
|Upward Rotation
|Downward Rotation
|Trapezius (Upper &Lower Fibers)
|Rhomboid Major
|Serratus Anterior
|Rhomboid Minor
|Levator Scapula
Trapezius Origin, Insertion, and Actions
Origin: Upper fibers: base of skull at occipital protuberance and the nuchal ligaments (ligamentum nuchae) of neck. Middle fibers: spinous processes of seventh cervical vertebra and upper three thoracic vertebrae. Lower fibers: spinous processes of fourth through twelfth thoracic vertebrae.
The upper (superior) fibers proceed from their origin downward and laterally. The middle fibers run laterally to toward the acromion process and the lower (inferior) fibers run upward and laterally.
Insertion: Upper fibers: posterior aspect of the lateral third of the clavicle. Middle fibers: medial border of acromion process and superior lip of the posterior border of the spine of the scapula. Lower fibers: tubercle at the apex smooth triangular surface at base of scapular spine via an aponeurosis.
Action: Upper fibers: elevation and adduction of the shoulder girdle; extension of the head. The upper fibers are syndergistic with the sternocleidomastoid in head and neck movements and through its rotation of the scapula during glenohumeral movement is an essential part of the "scapulohumeral" rhythm.
Middle Fibers: elevation, upward rotation and adduction of the scapula. By helping to stabilize the scapula these fibers aid in the elevation of the arm.
Lower fibers: depression and adduction of the scapula.
Both sides of the trapezius work together during extension of the head, neck and thoracic spine and during any symmetrical lifting activity such as overhead pressing.
Trapezius Trigger Points Referred Pain, Symptoms, and Causes
There are six main trigger points of the trapezius, two in each portion of the muscle, plus one unusual one which causes only autonomic phenomena. These trigger points are numbered in the images below in order of their prevalence and will be discussed in that order. Note that the position of the trigger point has nothing to do with its number. For instance, although trigger points one and two are in the upper part of the trapezius, three and four are in the lower part, and five and six are in the middle portion.
The trigger points of the upper fibers (TrP1,2) as stated above, were found by Travel and Simons to be the most frequently identified in the body. They refer pain to the postolateral part of the neck, behind the ear and to the temple.
Trigger points can be activated in any part of the trapezius by a sudden trauma such as falling off a height, down stairs, or suffering whiplash in an automobile accident. Poor posture such as forward head posture, misfitting furniture such as arm rests that are too low, muscular abuse and prolonged immobility. They can also be caused by any number of general mechanical "perpetuating" factors:
- skeletal asymmetry
- lower limb length inequality
- pelvis smaller on one side (small "hemipelvis")
- skeletal disproportion
- "Morton's Foot" - long second metatarsal bone
- short upper arms
Lower leg length inequality or an uneven pelvic size tilts the shoulder girdle and overloads the upper trapezius. The pelvis is tilted laterally which causes a spinal curve, thus tiling the shoulder so that one side of the body sags. The upper trapezius has to work continuously to keep the head and neck vertical and the eyes level.
A misfitted walking cane can cause a similar problem. If the walking cane is too long it forces up the shoulder on the side of the cane which causes a shoulder tilt that must be corrected for by the trapezius. With a properly fitted walking cane the elbow will should not be bent more than 25 degrees while the shoulder remain level. When possible it is best to have walking canes fitted by a professional.3
The trapezius supports the weight of the shoulders and arms so it is always working against gravity. Normally this is well within its reach but certain behaviors or circumstances add to this load such as activities requiring the arm to be held up for long periods. Talking on the telephone for long periods can be a big problem. Today, this problem can be easily solved by a handless device. Similar to the levator scapulae, a computer keyboard that is placed too high or lots of driving with the hands at the top of the steering wheel can overload the upper fibers as the shoulders hunch up to compensate for this high arm position.
Other possibilities are backpacking with heavy packs hung from the shoulders, heavy bags or purses with shoulder straps, violin playing, and sleeping on the stomach with the head turned sharply to one side. Women with large breasts can have trouble with the trapezius and especially when wearing tightly fitted bras with narrow bra straps, in which the shoulder or the torso straps can be too tight. Most women wear improperly fitted bras without knowing it and this is a major contributor to neck, upper back, and shoulder pain. It really pays to have a professional measure and outfit you with properly fitted bras.
The middle trapezius is affected by arm being help up and in front for long periods. Any activity that increases tension in the pectoralis major and pulls the scapula and shoulders forward, resulting in a round-shouldered posture, overload the middle trapezius and rhomboids. Strength training with too much bench pressing or too much emphasis on internal shoulder rotator dominant movements may lead to a tight pectoralis and so bring on trapezius strain and trigger points.
Similar to the upper fibers, driving with the hands at the top of the steering wheel can strain these fibers cine the shoulders round forward.
The lower fibers are strained by any activity that requires bending and reaching for long periods of time. May occupations may fit this scenario.
Of course, as many people realize, the trapezius suffers when we are chronically stressed or anxious. We tend to hunch up the shoulders and hold tension in the shoulders and neck, which puts constant strain on the trapezius. Like the levator scapulae the trapezius is also affected by chronic "high chest" breathing which can accompany anxiety and stressful periods but lead to a chronic problem on its own. Read more about breathing and relaxation and how you can get control of this problem.
Trapezius Upper Trigger Points Number One and Two
TrP1, located at the very top of the trapezius, when intense enough, refers pain unilaterally from postolateral aspect of the neck4 to the mastoid process and upwards along the side of the head to the temple where the pain concentrates. As you can see in the TrP1 image below the main areas of pain are the side of the neck, the mastoid process or corner of the jaw, and the temple region with spillover pain being felt from the neck to the jaw and in an arch from the neck to the temple and back of the eye socket, forming a question mark shape. In general this trigger point causes sever pain on the side of the neck toward the back and a temporal headache. This trigger point is consistently associated with myogenic or "tension" headache.5
Upper Trapezius Trigger Point 1 (TrP1)
Upper Trapezius Trigger Point 1 (TrP1)
Trigger points in the upper trapezius, the temporalis, suboccipital muscles, and sternocleidomastoid are consistently found to be a clinical feature of both chronic and episodic tension type headaches. Trigger points in the levator scapulae, masseter and splenius captitus or cervicus may be associated as well.
Sometimes pain is referred from TrP1 all the way in the back of the head at the occipital protuberance6. Also, pain is occasionally referred to the lower molar teeth and to the pinna (outer part of the ear) but deep ear pain is not a feature of this TrP. Satellite trigger points may be induced in some of the muscles of mastication or the temple leading to jaw and face pain or any of the symptoms associated with trigger points in these muscles. Satellite TrP's in the scalenes may send pain down the arms and the rhomboids and supraspinatus of the same side are also a potential site of satellites as well as any of the muscles mentioned above. Of course, trigger points in the contralateral trapezius are possible as well but most lay people may have a hard time differentiating between a "satellite" trapezius caused by trigger points in the opposite trapezius from any other trigger point of the trapezius. Most people would do well to treat both sides equally unless evaluated by a professional.
Dizziness or "vertigo" has sometimes been associated with this TrP but this may be related to trigger points in the clavicular branch of the sternocleidomastoid which is a synergist of the upper trapezius and could be stimulated by activity in upper trapezius trigger points via a reflex stimulation.
Trapezius trigger point one is located in the middle part of the front of the upper trapezius. These fibers are almost vertical and are right where the muscle joins the neck. Pinch the roll of muscle at the very top of this area to find the trigger point.
Trapezius TrP2 is more to the side, and a bit further back and deeper than TrP1, located in the more horizontal fibers of the upper trapezius atop the shoulders. Its referred pain pattern is similar to TrP1 but a bit more posterior with the pain more toward the back of the neck. The pain pattern blends with TrP1 behind the ear. A sore neck may be associated with trigger points in this area but a headache is generally not associated with it.
The image below shows the approximate area where this trigger point may occur, as is true of trigger points three and four in the same . Do not be confused by the area at the bottom of the trapezius labelled T12, which conveys the lowest insertion point of the lower trapezius fibers, the T-12 spinous process of the thoracic spine. Notice that the trigger points are labeled "TrP" not just "T".
Trapezius Trigger Points 2 through 7
Trapezius Trigger Points 2 through 7
General symptoms of trigger points in the upper fibers include may cause pain when turning the neck all the way to the opposite side of the active trigger points. Although upper trapezius trigger points are claimed to cause a 'stiff neck', according to Travell and Simons an acute and painful stick neck would involve accompanying trigger points in the levator scapulae and perhaps the spenius cervicis muscles and this would severely limit rotation of the head to the same side. An intolerance to weight on the shoulders such as from heavy overcoats may also develop.
Trapezius Lower Trigger Points Number Three and Four
Trigger point three of the lower trapezius is very common. Since it has a tenancy to cause a pain and deep tenderness to the upper trapezius region you may mistake this for upper trapezius trigger points. However, satellite trigger points do not usually occur in the upper trapezius as a result of TrP3. Be aware of the difference between this difuse pain and tenderness and the local tenderness and taut bands of the trigger points, which when pressed are very tender and sensitive and may trigger pain to their signature referred pain regions. TrP3 may, however, induce other satellite trigger points in the upper back and neck muscles and can be the cause of consistent upper back and neck pain after the upper trapezius trigger points have been treated.
TrP3 is located in the lower trapezius near the middle fibers of the lower trapezius usually near the lower border of the muscle. Besides the pain and tenderness mentioned above it refers pain staring in the paraspinal region adjacent to it and extending up to the cervical paraspinal area7, over the top of the scapula, and to the mastoid area behind the ear of the same side, as well as to the acromion at the top of the shoulder, which is the bony joint at the top of the shoulder that most people associate with the shoulder itself, as opposed to the actual shoulder joint.8
Trigger point 4 of the lower trapezius (not the middle as reported by Davies9) is probably an attachment trigger point and is located next to the inner border of the scapula. It refers pain primarily to the area bordering the scapula on the same side.
Trapezius Middle Trigger Points Number Five, Six, and Seven
TrP5 is located close to the upper part of the inner border of the scapula. It causes interscapular pain which will be felt as a burning pain between the scapula and the spine, which occurs between the TrP and the spinous processes of C7 and T1 (see the location of C7 in the image ).
TrP6 is probably an attachment trigger point and is found close to the top of the shoulder in the middle trapezius close to where the muscle inserts to the acromion process and the superior lip of the of the spine of the scapula. It causes localized pain and tenderness over the acromion, similar to some of the referred pain from TrP3. This trigger point can make it difficult to carry a heavy purse or bag with a shoulder strap or to tolerate the weight of a heavy coat.
TrP7 is located close to the area of TrP5 but is very rarely found. It causes autonomic phenomena such as goosebumps on the side of the arm and sometimes on the thigh as well as a weird feeling "like shivers running up and down the spine" such as one feels in response to fingernails being scraped across a blackboard.
Trapezius Trigger Point self Treatment
Trp1 is easily kneaded by the fingers. It is located just under the skin so can be easily pinched between the fingers and thumb. It should feel like a firm strand or cord of muscle that can be as small as a pencil lead or as big as the pencil itself. Squeezing it between the thumb and finders firmly may reproduce the referred pain pattern and bring on a temple headache. This will verify the trigger point as the cause of the pain. Some with a very well developed upper trapezius, a very tight upper trapezius, or a lot of extra fat in the region may have some trouble locating it. Relaxing the arm on the side you're working on may help. Put your hand in your pocket or support the arm on a cushion held on the lap. Remember, this is an extremely common trigger point, maybe the most common. If you have any neck or head pain you probably have this one.
Davies recommends pressing the trigger point between a tennis ball and the thumb if the hand gets to fatigued. Put a tennis ball against a wall and press the back of you upper trapezius against it. Then wedge the trigger point between the ball and your thumb, pressing and massaging.
All of the other trigger points can be treated with the Thera Cane self massager. Use the knob on the crook end of the cane in contact with the trigger point and massage. A ball against the wall will also work well for all the points except for TrP (ball method for TrP1 described above) which is a bit high to use a ball on. A tennis ball can be used if the points are very tender. A firmer massage ball or lacrosse ball can be used to go deeper. And small bouncy rubber balls (which are very firm) can be used for fine precision. Bouncy balls are easy to find at party stores as they are often used as party favors for children's birthday parties. You may even be able to find a pack of assorted sizes from small to very small. They make great massage tools. See Davies, Pages 58-60 for more detailed instructions.
This "Trapezius Muscle: Location, Actions, and Trigger Points" page is provided by Ground Up Strength for information purposes only and should not take the place of professional medical advice. Although we have done our utmost to provide accurate and safe information, we are not medical professionals and the information on this page should not be taken as professional medical advice, or any other kind of medical advice. Any self-treatment undertaken by you is undertaken at your own risk.
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Elective Outsiders
Jeremy Harding
- Conductors of Chaos: A Poetry Anthology edited by Iain Sinclair
Picador, 488 pp, £9.99, June 1996, ISBN 0 330 33135 3
- Nearly Too Much: The Poetry of J.H. Prynne by N.H. Reeve and Richard Kerridge
Liverpool, 196 pp, £25.00, April 1996, ISBN 0 85323 840 5
- Carl Rakosi: Poems 1923-41 edited by Andrew Crozier
Sun & Moon, 209 pp, $12.99, August 1995, ISBN 1 55713 185 6
- The Objectivists edited by Andrew McAllister
Bloodaxe, 156 pp, £8.95, May 1996, ISBN 1 85224 341 4
That Iain Sinclair, poet, essayist, impresario and weaver of arcane fictions, is one of the more generous spirits around is obvious from this brave, demanding and often flummoxing anthology. Thirty or forty poets are represented; most have remained in relative obscurity, partly because their work fell on deaf ears, partly because they believed in the notion of a mainstream which intellectual loyalties led them to disparage quicker than it could disparage them. 'The voices here,' says Sinclair in the Introduction, 'are the ones who have been locked away, those who rather enjoy it.' Twenty-five, thirty years after the best of them began to publish – John James, Chris Torrance, Lee Harwood, Andrew Crozier, Peter Riley, J.H. Prynne, Michael Haslam, Douglas Oliver, Barry MacSweeney, Denise Riley – they must nonetheless wonder, from time to time, whether theirs is a case of having missed the boat which would only have been worth catching if they'd been on it in the first place. Perhaps that is why Sinclair gives the impression of his poets as a ship of fools docking for an open day. 'The work I value is that which seems most remote, alienated, fractured. I don't claim to "understand" it but I like having it around.' Plenty of his contributors are not chaoticians at all. They do not make a meal out of alienation and fracture. Yet the alternative to implying, as Sinclair does in his adversarial way, that because they are crazy and wild, his favourites can wipe the floor with the dandies of the London lists, would have been to argue that they were an avant garde with coherent ideas whose bearing on British poetry will in time become clear – and this is unlikely. Their identity is now too loose, the poetic culture on which they might have a bearing too amorphous. Their vanities, moreover, are not those of an avant garde: Sinclair's people have too much both in the way of an admirable reticence and a less admirable vigilance which drives some to any lengths to avoid the sin of facility. Most important, the forms of patronage that made avant-gardism a reliable means of insertion in a 'prevailing' discourse, and the political contexts in which this was possible, no longer exist. Low-paid day jobs or faculty teaching posts have kept too many of Sinclair's unworldly contributors at a remove from anything resembling an open forum. If they now speak largely to one another, sometimes in a mysterious babble, that is our loss, for many of them are, or have been, very good indeed.
In The Kodak Mantra Diaries, Sinclair's record of a film project based on Allen Ginsberg's stay in London thirty years ago, there is an interesting exchange with the psychiatrist David Cooper.
Sinclair: It seems to me that what has emerged from this Congress [the Dialectics of Liberation] is the necessity for what has been described as madness – as one of the few active means of keeping society alive ...
Cooper: Yes, I think we've changed our ideas very much, in the sense that we now see madness as something precious; not as a diseased state of consciousness but as an expanded state of awareness.
Despite a quarter of a century of revision, the lingering notion of madness both as a gift and as a practice sounds a keynote for Conductors of Chaos. It's not the madness of mental illness, which, along with 'Belfast, the Caribbean, sexual politics', Sinclair dismisses as a marketable poetic agenda, but something more impersonal, closer to the magical attentions of the 'poet-shaman', who (like Ginsberg) can reconfigure the world with a poetics of utterance and enactment, or else with a more strategic approach (such as 'cut-up', which Sinclair tell us he's been dabbling in at the beginning of The Kodak Mantra Diaries) that would liberate language from the custody of 'sense'. In both cases, the objectives are revelation and transformation, and two exemplary young poets who revealed and transformed the world in ways that Sinclair approves are named in the Introduction: Mark Hyatt and Veronica Forrest-Thompson, both engaged until their deaths in the Seventies in wringing that impersonal madness from very disconcerting forms of solitude – Hyatt's poems raw and visionary, Forrest-Thompson's more in the nature of a long conversation with difficulty.
Common to at least half the contributors is a keen interest in Modernism, identified with Pound, among others, but less with Eliot, and a resentment of the Movement, which is seen as a drab cul de sac down which a serviceable Modernist tradition was diverted and then done away with. If going back is impossible, a handful of refugees have looked for other ways out: the culture here is excursionary, touching on far more than the merely 'English'. There is a good familiarity with American poetry, tending out of Objectivism, through Black Mountain, Beat, the 'New York school' and on, much later, to the more detached experimentalism of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E writers whose notion of 'subverting' the 'imperialism' of poetic discourse won a hearing in Britain shortly after the launch of their journal in 1978.
Surrealism is also important: David Gascoyne is one of five predecessors, each chaperoned by a younger contributor, to win a place in the anthology. Here and there, traces of a heady European education are to be found, chiefly in phenomenology and Marxism – Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, vestigial readings in the Frankfurt school – leading on, in some cases, via the Situationist International and then the Tel Quel of the mid to late Seventies, to Derridean anxieties about the metaphysical haunting of texts. Which may simply be to say that several of these poets have been around for a while, and that they've been interested in radical or oppositional modes. Often notions of purity and incantation (the poet-shaman, again) get the edge over the numbing mix of craft-consciousness and attitude which Sinclair takes to be the British career-poet's strongest suit. Alternatively, we are offered a belief, verging on superstition, in the excellence of difficulty and a tendency to think of vernacular as an entrenchment of social and political habits which can be unsettled and perhaps dislodged by radical work on the page.
For some of these 'elective outsiders', as Sinclair calls them, quality time at the keyboard is conceived as a challenge to power: the poem is a flamboyant descent into the street, part Pentecost, part June Days – old allegiances among the poets run from the Communist Party through most stations of infantile disorder. In literary political terms, there is a vigorous disdain for an impervious centre: London literary life; the breezier, upmarket poetry lists; the reiteration of English down-in-the-mouthism ('careers,' says Sinclair, 'built on rummaging through Larkin's bottom drawer').
For Peter Riley, the failure of Nicholas Moore, another of the predecessors, to break through to a wider readership (bigger publishers) after his success in the Forties proves 'that poetry-in-public ... was already completely useless in the Sixties for any purpose except re-endorsing the pre-endorsed'. From which it follows that there are margins, and that these are by definition zones of virtue, in the moral, political and personal senses proper to poetry. This seething peripheral space used to be called counter-culture, or, as Michael Horowitz preferred, the 'underground', and in the Sixties, whatever the wreckage, it was probably easier going than it is now. But the older Conductors of Chaos, and their anthologist, never thought of counter-culture as a leisure activity.
Difficulty of an obvious order occurs at the level of the page. To cull at random:
A forced landing in parlance
as aforesaid in the aphoristic
pall as predicted disafforested
the wordland 'on balance'.
Alan Halsey
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Vol. 19 No. 13 · 3 July 1997 » Jeremy Harding » Elective Outsiders
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I finally got around to last Monday's challenge from Laura Harms at her Diva blog. We were to do something for Chinese New Year. It is the Year of the Snake. "Ancient Chinese wisdom says a Snake in the house is a good omen because it means your family will not starve." This is a quote from US Bridal Guide, horoscopes! I had been thinking about it during the week and wanted to do not only a snake(tangled pattern "BLT Joos"), but Chinese Lanterns("Bulb Lantern") and some fans. I had also thought of the rising sun but ran out of room. I am just getting in under the wire!
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Monday, January 25, 2010
What I'm Reading: In the Voice of a Minor Saint
37º & glitters of sun, a wind building towards gusting
I've been following Sarah J. Sloat's blog, the rain in my purse, for over a year and always delight when I come across one of her poems in a journal. I bought her chapbook, In the Voice of a Minor Saint, after I read the title poem online somewhere, I think. I've also been working on a series of poems about made-up, forgotten saints, so the title intrigued me as well. I've now re-read the book for the third time and am still delighted.
An aside before delving into the poems: This was my first book from Tilt Press, and I'd like to commend them on the quality of the chapbook. The cover art is amazing and in four-color printing. The paper is quality stock, heavy enough to withstand my dog-earring behaviors and my endless annotations. And, the inclusion of the endpapers of chocolate brown give the whole thing a polished look.
To the poems: Sloat's subject matter focuses on the everyday in such a natural way that I fall into the poems quite easily. These are both poems of consolation for living in a painful world and poems of defiance against letting the painful parts win. These are poems that call attention to our "epidemic impoverishment" and our "nerves ripped to bits" ("3 Deep"). Yet, they also call attention to this world "wallowing / off in the wheat of long siestas" ("Humidity"). The same poem also asks the reader to "Console / yourself: at least the trees / put up their parasols... ."
Sloat is a master of sound and syntax, two properties I consider essential for lasting poetry. Perhaps because I've been introducing my beginning creative writing students to alliteration and assonance, these two craft issues stood out the most as I re-read in order to discover what made the poems sing so. As I read, I was also impressed with the precision of the line breaks and the deft shifting from enjambment to end-stopped lines when the poem called for it. Also, her last lines are masterful.
To sample from my three favorite poems of the collection, here is the opening stanza of "Grassland."
When I could not get with child
I swallowed the egg of the meadowlark
who eats the daylight
the mother of untangled grasses.
A long drop, the egg bore its root
in my foot, it stitched me
together with grain.
Another favorite is "Ghazal with Heavenly Bodies," which includes such couplets as these
Look at me crooked. Mistake me for Eve. If looks
deceive, who knows which mask our maker wears tonight?
Yet again, love drops anchor where lust dug its moat.
On the roof, angels play musical chairs tonight.
My signature moves like loops and lightning. Letter
posted, I'll sleep the sleep of millionaires tonight.
And finally, I can't help but include the entirety of the title poem.
In the Voice of a Minor Saint
I came at a wee hour
into my miniature existence.
I keep my hair close cropped
that my face might fit in lockets.
My heart is small, like a love
of buttons or black pepper.
On approach, I notice how
objects grow and contours blear.
That's what comes of nearness.
I have an ear for the specific,
as St. Apollonia minds the teeth,
and Magnus of Fussen, hailstones.
I dwarf gloom with my cachet sign:
one good hand conceals
my one good eye,
halving all disaster.
That "ear for the specific" and the way the poems have of "halving all disaster" makes me sure I'll be re-reading this book in the future. Definitely worth the price of admission!
Support poetry and poets today. Borrow or Buy a copy of this book.
In the Voice of a Minor Saint
Sarah J. Sloat
Tilt Press, 2009
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I die cut Wishing from W Plus 9's Sending Hoping Wishing die set out of dark brown cardstock and added it to a circle of vellum die cut with My Favorite Things' Inside & Out Stitched Circles.
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"A very comfortable room for an overnight stay. A warm welcome and no fuss. I shall stop here again. Highly recommended...."
About the hotel
Enjoy the relaxed atmosphere of our restaurant where our team of chefs are building an excellent reputation for serving great meals at reasonable prices from fresh local produce.
We also have a lunch and light meals menu that can be enjoyed in our bar or alfresco in our garden or patio area.
If you just want to have a quiet drink with friends come and try our selection of real ales, lagers and fine wines.
We are also able to offer you ensuite accommodation in our adjoining 15th century house. So whether you are on business, visiting family or here for a weekend at Newbury races, come and stay with us for a great all round experience.
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Facilities Show/hide
- Main
- Hotel Non-Smoking Throughout
- Parking
- Car parking available onsite
- Dining
- Restaurant, Bar
- Business
- Wi-Fi Available In Public Areas
Useful Info Show/hide
- From 14:00 hours
- By 10:00 hours
- Up to 17 years old
- The price shown is based on the occupancy and dates you have searched for. Prices and availability are subject to change based on the arrival date, number of nights and occupancy searched for. All prices are inclusive of all local taxes.
- Pets are not allowed
Customer Reviews
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1 night away
What a lovely place to stay, we were in the area for the antiques fair and we couldn't have chosen a better place to stay.
Everyone so pleas...
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Lovely character rooms
Very friendly, happy atmosphere, popular with the locals which tells you the food is great.
Character property which makes staying away on b...
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