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Ladataan... Mr. Memory & Other Poems (Penguin Poets)Tekijä: Phillis Levin
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"An intimate, richly textured new collection from Phillis Levin, a poet whose work "shimmers with gracefulness" (David Baker) Phillis Levin's fifth collection of poems encompasses a wide array of styles and voices while staying true to a visionary impulse sparked as much by the smallest detail as the most sublime landscape. From expansive meditation to haiku, in ode and epistle, dream sequence and elegy, Levin's new poems explore motifs deeply social and historical, personal and metaphysical. Their various strategies deploy the sonic powers of lyric, the montage techniques of cinema, and the atavistic energies of the oral tradition. Throughout this volume, the singularity of person, place, and thing--and the plurality of our experience--assert their uncanny presence: an ash on a crackling log, a character from Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps, a burgundy scarf, an x-ray of Bruegel's "Massacre of the Innocents," and a demitasse cup from Dresden are all woven into a collection by turns rhapsodic and ironic, caustic and incantatory. The pre-Socratic mathematician Zeno facing the riddle of an ordinary day; a cloudbank of silence; a pair of second-hand shoes bought for Anne Frank; two crows at play above the peak of a mountain; a dot flickering on the horizon: intimate and philosophical, these poems unveil the metamorphic properties of mind and nature"-- Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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At the start, there was nothing I liked about this collection. I felt as though the poet was trying too hard to give me that "deep" and "dark" poetry and I was just not having it. Personally, I don't like that style, though others may.
The collection did prevail, as I carried on, with several moving, uplifting, and engaging pieces. The images clearer, the story to the point.
My favorite piece from this collection would be, Boy With a Book Bag which deals with bullying. Here are a few lines:
I don't remember the face of the girl
Who took me aside one day and said
That I killed Jesus, relaying the news
Matter-of-factly, without prologue
Or proof, the verdict clear.
....
If I could be accused of killing Christ
Couldn't I be the person the police
Were in hot pursuit of for robbing
A bank at gunpoint in Paterson?
You may ask how a six-year-old
Imagines such a thing, but why not:
What is holding up a bank
Next to murdering Jesus?
Another one of my top pieces being X-Radiograph holds this stanza:
The plunder has begun:it is bringing
Various people to their knees.
That is what a naked eye
Sees (a mother and child in flight
Were partially lost when another side
Of the panel was cut down).
As for the faded pair of socks
In the snow, the are
A faded pair of socks in the snow.
For me, this book was a half hit and half miss with the poetry. Some selections fell flat while others held my attention and a bit of my heart with them, from line to line. Do I recommend it? Yes. It is a quick read, not much of a waste of your time and if you are a person who is confused by poetry, there are many pieces, like my two favorites, that are easier to read and feel. Would I buy the book? No. This is a library copy and will remain that way. In the future, I may consider picking up another book by the author but, as it stands, I can allow her poetry to remain on the shelves.
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