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Chargement... Shattered sonnets, love cards, and other off and back handed importunities (édition 2003)par Olena Kalytiak Davis
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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. After reading "And Her Soul Out of Nothing" I needed more of Olena Davis. "Shattered Sonnets..." did not disappoint. The poems in this collection carry a similar intensity of content as her first collection but Davis plays a lot more with syntax, grammar, and form. This play with language doesn't communicate the text's inability to communicate, rather, it heightens the desparation of the speaker of the poem to be heard by their addressee (either god, the reader, love, or the speaker themselves). I was assigned this book in graduate school. Now, I'm not a big fan of "mainstream" literary poetry, as you can probably tell from my large Bukowski and Ferlinghetti collections. And this book is pretty much everything I hate in popular contemporary poetry! In the book jacket, she is described as a "verbal acrobat, a daredevil on the high wire of life and love." Gag! Further, her poems "echo everything from nursery rhymes to the classics." I can't relate. Nor do I wish to. I don't want to know the author and I don't want to read her work. I want REALITY! aucune critique | ajouter une critique
""[Shattered Sonnets] breathes life into American verse. [an] urgent and unrepentant collection."-Rick Moody, Poetry"This convulsive book [Shattered Sonnets]-at times funny, at times sick at heart-refracts and defends a wondrous light."-Edward HirschOlena Kalytiak Davis's Shattered Sonnets has earned "cult classic" status and is an unremittingly electrifying collection brimming with intelligence, humor, and ardor. Drawing on an impressive array of forebears including Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, and Sylvia Plath, Davis overhauls the sonnet and revitalizes the confessional style in poems that leave no convention unquestioned, no expectation unthwarted, no letter, spelling, or line break unconsidered.From "sweet reader, flannelled and tulled":You are cold. You are sick. You are silly. Forgive me, kind Reader, forgive me, I had not intended to step this quickly this far back. Reader, we had a quiet wedding: he&I, theparson&theclerk. Would I could, stead-fast, gracilefacile Reader! Last, good Reader, tarry with me, jessa-mine Reader. Dar- (jee)ling, bide! Bide, Reader, tired, and stay, stay, stray Reader,true. R.: I had been secretly hoping this would turn into a love poem. Disconsolate. Illiterate. Reader, I have cleared this space for you, for you, for you.Olena Kalyiak Davis is the author of three books of poetry and currently works as a lawyer in Anchorage, Alaska. "-- 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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