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If ostranenie-to make strange-is the mandate of contemporary poetry, EMILY CARR has achieved this both brilliantly and beautifully. Kaleidoscopic in its glimmering slivers, the life she brings us is built of charged familiars slightly and completely changed: the sun turns on its stem; the stallion rolls in a pasture of blue ether. Although she references poetic antecedents from Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams to Joan Retallack and Mary...
4) Contrapuntal
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An understanding of the nature of consciousness reveals itself to be more elusive the longer one tries to approach it. The closer we get, the more vivid the confusion is. And this is the case regarding not only our handle on consciousness, but also the one we have on identity and even on reality itself, both of which depend upon consciousness-and all three of which, ultimately, prove more malleable than we might care to admit. They can be, and are...
6) Go On
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The miniature poems that comprise Go On, Ethel Rackin's second collection, constitute distilled moments in time that paradoxically extend our field of concentration and vision. Focusing on various kinds of survival-personal, political, environmental-Go On asks what it means to endure in unsure times. By turns collaged, diaristic, and panoramic, the poems that make up this collection combine to form a kind of crazy-quilt of lyric association and connection....
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A darkly humorous exploration of the human body and its various functions in poetic prose, Valerio Magrelli's The Condominium of the Flesh, a personal chronicle of his clinical experience, catalogues a life history of ailments without ever being pathological.
10) Pilgrimly
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Attentive to telling detail. The metallic bloom of bright silences. Hieratic: Instructions for a vigil. Augury: We could ruminate, luxuriate, and divinate in the language of these exquisite poems. They give the light with their own eyes. There is gold on their tongues. Their words marry or refer. Lure or long. In the alchemical brilliance of Siobhán Scarry's stunning debut collection, we walk the page as if the earth, feeling each word a footstep,...
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An Unchanging Blue provides a generous sampling of translations (with German originals) taken from ten collections of Rolf Dieter Brinkmann's poetry published between 1962 and 1975. An extensive introduction by Mark Terrill contextualizes Brinkmann's place in postwar German literature.
12) Spine: Poems
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Sometimes an echoing or answering poem, sometimes a second voice, the "ghost text" in Spine mimics and examines the difficulty of processing information from multiple sources at once. The distraction that accompanies reading ruptures the experience of these poems. Too much and too little co-exist here: the challenges of living in rural areas that technological advances have left behind throw into relief the disorienting speed with which the world...
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Christopher Sindt's System and Population returns to the primary theme of Sindt's earlier collection, The Bodies: the impact of human desire on the natural world. System and Population focuses on the proposed damming of the American River canyon in northern California-working with source texts such as geologic studies, government documents, and the diaries of gold miners-to study the intersections of personal experience, scientific study, and the...
16) Quarry
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Since at least the days of Horace, poets have found in nature, in the local flora and fauna, an invitation to observe, name, meditate and wonder. In QUARRY, Carolyn Guinzio's second collection, this tradition continues, in poems of tautly drawn, subtle eloquence. Her tone is somber, her pace gradual, as if, at any moment, something might happen to alter everything and toss the great endurance of life into ruin, or revelation.
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In this new collection of poems, Lisk delights in the transparency and obliquity of language. Invested with a "jocoserious" sensibility, he explores the borders of language and the ways it defines identity-the quotidian language of everyday life hovering on the edge of forgetfulness.
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Plato wrote in the Timaeus of time as the moving image of eternity. In Ethel Rackin's THE FOREVER NOTES each of these terms finds resonance: the fleeting objects of the world are moving, and persons moved, her lyric syntax builds pictures that dissolve into song and then turn back to image again, the eternal endures in its endless transformations.
19) Under the Quick
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In Molly Bendall's fourth book of poems, the verbal underworld of doing and undoing-oath, love charm, prayer, curse-becomes a refuge of tenderness and malediction. One of her generation's most subtly imaginative poets, Bendall overhears-and whispers to the reader- a lost language, which is by turns brainy and promiscuous, clueless and inscrutable, bewitching and bereft: a voice skirting a strange silence, a "goblin market" of snares, cures, trifles,...
20) The Wash
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Rich in river imagery and an intense sense of the passage of time, The Wash explores the incessant music that permeates journeys with a destination unknown. The poems depict a landscape of loss in which language and images provide the only concrete platform on which to stand. Playing a lyrical voice against the limits of silence, Adam Clay's The Wash uncovers the voices that can be made, and heard, in and out of nature.
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