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Chargement... Resin: Poemspar Geri Doran
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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. Provocative collection of poems that suggest the frailty of human existence. Lines such as "Believing wasn't always hard./The river forked in three: I knew/truth could go in different ways" (Resin) and "Are we always/measured by what we do not reach?" (Lives of the Gods, Lives of the Saints) strike home to how fragile we are. "I want the god I pray to to be real" (Beyond the 45th Parallel). Don't we all? ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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In poems of quiet force, Geri Doran maps the fragility of human connection and the irreducible fact of grief. From the communal ruptures of Chechnya and Rwanda to the personal dislocations that attend great loss, Resin weighs frailty against responsibility, damage against the desires of the heart. For the poet, a factory fire in late-nineteenth-century Portland becomes a tool for precise knowing: "The phases of wood are a means / of dead reckoning: burn what is built / and gauge your passage / by what is lost." Even in so quotidian an act as the planting of potatoes, Doran's sure, meticulous, and carefully calibrated lines reveal the intensity of our yearnings: "What carried us from year to year was yield: / potatoes in, potatoes out, like rowing." Variously plaintive, passionate, intuitive, and serious, the voice in Resin tells how the natural world, in both its wildness and regularity, expresses and mediates human longing.You entered me like migraine, left like migraine a private vacancy. The darkness outside is great and wild. Blue plums falling from an old tree demand we believe in wildness, fallingness. What's the matter is memory, shrivel and tart. How in this sweet aftermath of everything the mind should settle on plums (blue plums!) is one of the mysteries. That God and my window-blinds should conspire to refract the light to look like plums. Out in the wild nothing. -- from "Blue Plums" Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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