Beautiful book. Surprising in many ways - the poetry of it; the poetry in it (a lot of Emily Dickinson). Wide-ranging, introspective: from the failure and futility of language as a way to understand another being (leave it to a poet to point out language's short-comings); to the power of love and ar...
You want evidence of the streetfight? A gutter-grate bruise & concrete scabs—here are nails on the tongue,a mosaic of glass shards on my lips.I am midnight banging against housefire.A naked woman shakingwith the sweat of need.An ocean of burning diamondsbeneath my roadkill,my hitchhikerbelly fills s...
Read this for my continuing ed class...beautiful writing! It gave me a new perspective on still lifes, something I had never thought much about. It's a pretty short book, so I will probably read through it again before the class meets.
I found Doty's poems good, solid, but frequently lacking the fire I was looking for in them. I didn't feel compelled by a spark of emotion to progress in the book, and they were certainly well crafted, I just couldn't love them. Like a talented but otherwise dull and homely child.
"It is an art that points to the human by leaving the human out; nowhere visible, we're everywhere. It is an art that points to meaning through wordlessness, that points to timelessness through things permanently caught in time."A moving, erudite meditation on the the way we relate intimately to obj...
Update: I was right. It's my favorite book so far this year.Yes, yes, yes! "The man pauses and says “I don’t know…when people talk about what they want to do for animals I always wonder why that compassion isn’t offered to other people.” My anger flared, a hot, fierce flush. I said, “You ask...
I feel utterly unqualified to review a book of poems. I read them too fast, I rarely stop and savour them. I mean to, but then I speed up, and catch myself, and have to go back. It's not that I don't like poetry - I do. It's just that I'm not good at reading it.But I enjoyed this, although I didn't ...
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