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Derrick Brown's fourth and final collection of poetry and short stories is a unrelenting machine of honesty that has been called his finest collection of new work. Strange Light takes us back to the docks, to a violent drama class and boring prom, an undersea conversation with Jacques Cousteau, and into his famous romantic bursts of verse. The epic poem, Strange Light, anchors this collection as one of the most inventive and potent collections of modern American poetry. About.com called his 2009 collection Scandalabra, one of the best books of the year. Everything hilarious and stirring is illuminated. The power of Strange Light is waiting. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I found his writing at a pivotal time in my mid-twenties. He performed at Cafe Deux Soleil in 2009 - to this day, he is still the funniest poet I've ever seen. He used music from Sigur Rós and Explosions in the Sky to back-up his readings, a technique I adopted heavily for my own performances later on. He swung for the fences with every poem - the metaphors were dizzying, the puns so bad they were good and the writing was nakedly honest. Brown also didn't sound like any other slam-poets I'd seen. Every other person who got on stage that night delivered their work with the same cadence and rhythm (if you've been to a slam event in the past, you know what I'm talking about).
My brother picked this book up for me recently and I read it in a few sittings. Two-stars feels cold, but I genuinely thought it was just "okay."
Derrick Brown's written voice comes off tired in this book...the metaphors don't hold the same grandeur as his earlier work. I'm also at a different place in life - a little older, a little wiser(?) and I've experienced a mix of good and bad things over the last eight years that have coloured how I see the world. Brown's words feel like they've been picked over in his notebooks - trying to recapture the magic of his early work. Many of the poems feel forced to me, rather than found.
A worthwhile read if you're a fan, but I wouldn't start with this book if you haven't read or seen him before. ( )