New Poets: Short Books (5) - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0984451080 ISBN 13 : 9780984451081

Editeur : Lost Horse Press, 2011

Synopsis

Included in this collection are "What's Truly Is Feral" by Valentine Freeman, "Human Shade" by Robert Peake, and "On the Murder of Juan de la Cruz" by Jensea Storie.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

Three fascinating little volumes in one here. Valentine Freeman is succinctly and powerfully super-realistic but at the same time poetically on track about our dissolving in Big Time. Very effective: "You know: you're in a field like a plant,/not totally unlike an animal:/the fine, refracting comb of light..." ("Circumference," p.10). A strong sense fo family, friends, herself...caught in the flux of time. And oddly enough, Robert Peake's work is much the same, a sense of withering time, but never crass or over-obvious, always subtle and Debussyian: "Who knew the river of death would be beautiful? The boatman is not some skeleton in rags, but a man much like your father...it is not until he wraps a chain around the dock...that you realize those white dots of paint, bobbing in the wake, might be the last night sky you will ever see." ("Acheron," p. 45) Powerful precisely because of its larger cultural context and veiled (until the end) message. Jensea Storie's work is also filled with a sense of transience, but much more politically oriented. She's a California, but is filled with a sense of Arab and Mexican reality: "We are just ordinary people/looking for our daily bread/living in a city with crumpled roots/and dead gardens, and listening,/carefully, to the crashing cymbals/of yet another tyranny." ("From a Market Bombed in Baghdad," p. 77). No one here seems "new" in any sense, more like old pros still professionalizing it. --Hugh Fox, Small Press Review

Présentation de l'éditeur

. . . Our country is being attacked from without and within. Ideologues have taken the place of thinkers and judges, democracy has been distorted by TV politics, and the socalled American Dream is fast disappearing as health, safety and privacy become increasingly the luxuries of the wealthy. As always, the soul of a nation survives in the interstices of political and economic events. It survives, preeminently, in the arts. Art makes life better, even in the harshest of circumstances. In the glut of poetic gymnastics, amusements, hip talk, glittering confessions and conventional commentary, there will yet and always be, I believe, poets who write from inside, for whom poetry is a way of thinking from within emotion, and for whom a poem is about what happens as you write, read or hear it. No village explainer can tell you why this matters or persuade you to love it. I have cared for my students, and for these New Poets, more than they know. But they had to do the work themselves for it to matter. As I said, check back in ten years. Maybe twenty. Marvin Bell, 10 November 2010

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lost Horse Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0984451080
• ISBN 13: 9780984451081
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 108
• Éditeur: Bell Marvin
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible