Shore Ordered Ocean : Waywiser Press : 9781904130390 : 1904130399 : 15 Sep 2009 : Poetry. By turns playful and serious, the poems in Dora Malech's long- awaited second collection, SHORE ORDERED OCEAN, revel in the inherent tensions and pleasures of sense, sound and syntax, reveal the resonance in the offhand utterance, seek the unexpected in aphorism and cliché, and tap into the paradoxical freedom of formality. This is an extraordinary collection of highly idiosyncratic poems which explores place, politics, the body, love, art, and more. It is bound together by an urgent, physical and beguiling relationship with language itself. "These are wonderful poems. Dora Malech knows just about everything there is to know about the risky music that lives in language. But she also knows about Truth and Beauty. She's far too wise to try and make these last two rhyme, but she constantly tempts them into conversation."?Bill Manhire "If you'd wondered where the dappled things had gone, how the tis