Devotions (Phoenix Poets): Amazon.de: Bruce Smith: Englische Bücher

Taschenbuch: 88 Seiten
Verlag: University of Chicago Press (15. April 2011)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0226764354
ISBN-13: 978-0226764351
Gr��e und/oder Gewicht: 22,8 x 15,5 x 0,7 cm

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"The lines - sometimes single but usually paired - fold into each other like the parts of an origami bird and, like the bird, resist being opened. After all, when you unfold the bird you're left with a plain piece of paper. Meaning, elegance, pleasure - everything is in the folding." (F. D. Reeve, Antioch Review)"

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'Devotion: Guitar': From Tuscaloosa west to Mississippi then north to Memphis through country as unmusical as I was unloved by the decorous ardor of the South and the voice of one whose griefs were Cherokee, absentee, left in the Chevy and secret. She didn't love my love like Shiva's everywhere and blue and many-handed, some with knives and some with billet-doux. She wouldn't sacrifice the better judgment I'd want of her. Like stopped clocks (black hands, white faces) the geographic cure was true two times a day. All time else I was wrong and blued like the notes of the guitar, drum, saxophoned songs I was receiving: a magnet wound around a steel coil - a Les Paul - the quavers I converted to an electric boil that simmered into the sweet, fry-oil air. I can be mortified anywhere, everywhere. In the hands of Bruce Smith, devotions are momentary stops to listen to the motor of history. They are meditations and provocations. They are messages received from the chatter of the street and from transmissions as distant as Memphis and al-Mansur. Bulletins and interruptions come from brutal elsewheres and from the interior where music puts electrodes on the body to take an EKG. These poems visit high schools, laundromats, motels, films, and dreams in order to measure the American hunger and thirst. They are interested in the things we profess to hold most dear as well as what's unspoken and unbidden. While we're driving, while riding a bus, while receiving a call, while passing through an X-ray machine, the personal intersects - sometimes violently, sometimes tenderly - with the hum and buzz of the culture. The culture, whether New York or Tuscaloosa, Seattle or Philadelphia, past or present, carries the burden of race and 'someone's idea of beauty.' The poems fluctuate between the two poles of 'lullaby and homicide' before taking a vow to remain on earth, to look right and left, to wait and to witness.

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hugely talented, excessively displayed 7. Februar 2012

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I'm an admirer of Bruce smith's poems. What creative energy he has and what Hopkinsesque
passion, what erotic undercharge, etc... but he drowns his poems in excess figurative language,
saturates them in baroque vocabulary, and generally turns poems from poems into
vogue-ish Herculean runway model performances. It's like being served a
nice drink by a bartender who keeps pouring and pouring,
as it foams up and overflows and soaks your whole arm-- a poem
whose writer is having more fun and pleasure than you are.
Even the project, here, devotions-- gets tiresome with reiteration.
Bruce Smith's best collection still is probably mercy seat. Amen.

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Superb dense muscular linework. 21. Dezember 2011

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How I loved this book. Constant slants: as in thematic shift, as in diagonal rhyme, as in the receiver coming short across the middle, his ribs about to be broken, and he knows this, stretches up for the ball anyway. Each movement working deeper and deeper, as if a miner, as if a sliver. Does its most excellent work in/on the mess that is contemporary America in all its bigness and smallness. I have a weakness for that particular ground, and don't know anyone working it to better effect.

Pretentious, moi? 7. Mai 2012

Von Simon G. Barrett - Ver�ffentlicht auf Amazon.com

I'm real sorry and all, but condolezza (page 6) is SO not a word!!! A writer's first friend is his dictionary - a reader's too - and with wiki our guiding light (until the power runs out at least) there's really no excuse

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