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Chargement... Six Lipspar Penelope Scambly Schott
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I really like Schott's poetry. My review of this book is currently looking for a publication outlet, and here is a mini-sampling: "Every single poem in this collection delivers the unexpected. Schott’s imagination is filled with linkages that are startling, and the natural way they unfold is in itself strange and exciting." I think this poetry collection would appeal particularly to poetry readers who are also writers -- there is much to learn from the craft and the imagination displayed in these poems. I found myself wanting to respond to many of the poems with writing exercises of my own. An excellent read.
In these landscapes, we encounter an obvious animal/human motif. At times, Schott is her human self living alongside the animal kingdom. But many times she is shape-shifting like the Shaman who becomes animal for a time. The poet, turned animal, is not irreversible as in the Greek god myths. Nor is this a punishment. For this writer, transformation is temporary, representative of her multi-faceted self.
Poetry. SIX LIPS is an imagistic and offbeat approach to the old standards of love, death, and the planet where they happen. The titular six lips include those of the vulva. Nimble and tender, sensuous and biting, deliciously daring, and always grounded in felt experience, Penelope Scambly Schott's poems take us on wild and glorious flights of womanhood. The speaker of these poems is nothing if not multiple and shape-shifting. The poems are feisty, thoughtful, fun to read. They riot with original and often dreamlike images: monkeys "who have learned to speak in words," a "broom of violets," and even a child as a horse. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Absolutely gorgeous. As a whole, I love the fleshiness of the poems here, the way Schott inhabits her body and uses it as a vehicle for poetry, as a way in and a way through. I should probably come back to this in a few years, and see how my reaction changes. ( )