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Chargement... Double Shadow: Poemspar Carl Phillips
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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 should start this review off by admitting that I don’t read an awful lot of poetry and when I do, I prefer when the poem tells a story (think Rime of the Ancient Mariner or The Cremation of Sam McGee). I have never been any good at understanding the deeper meaning that many poems contain – or what I consider the more abstract nature of many poem – so it’s not surprising that a number of the poems in Double Shadow pretty much went right over my head. I ended up having to rely on published reviews to explain to me that this collection examines “the double shadow that life casts forth” between risk and faint heartedness. The poems, written with sparse, carefully and deliberately chosen language, convey a somber quality that may be more in tune with a meditative as opposed to inspirational feeling that probably resonates more with other readers than it did for me. That being said, I did still manage to enjoy a few of the poems and can see why some refer to Carl Phillips as “one of America’s most original, influential, and productive of lyric poets”. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Comparing any human life to a "restless choir" of impulses, variously in conflict and at peace with one another, Carl Phillips, in his eleventh collection of poems, examines the double shadow that a life casts forth: "now risk, and now / faintheartedness." In poems that both embody and inhabit this double shadow, risk and faintheartedness prove to have the power equally to rescue us from ourselves and to destroy us. Spare, haunted, and haunting, yet not without hope, Double shadow argues for life as a wilderness through which there's only the questing forward--with no regrets and no looking back. --Book jacket. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)811.54Literature English (North America) American poetry 20th Century 1945-1999Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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