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Bezig met laden... The Nerve: Poemsdoor Glyn Maxwell
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Maxwell has a gift for form; I admired many of his constructions. He also has a fine ear, especially for off-ryhmes and subtle consonances. His sensibility, though, is quite variable and, unfortuantely, he is not above easy effects. Also, there is a taint of vulgarity (no, I don't mean coarseness or profanity), that undermines what I take to be the persona he's trying to build -- cf. "The Weather Guy". That said, there are many immediately appealing poems here, my favorites being some of the simplest: "A Child's Love Song", "Playground Song", "Crow and Calf and Dog." ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Many of the poems in Glyn Maxwell's brilliant new collection explore American life and history. An Englishman who lived five years in Massachusetts, Maxwell watches fairs and floods and beggars pass by; he tries to understand gridiron and the ever-lengthening Halloween season. Some of these poems concern the harmful and the harmed: school shooters and terrorists on the one hand, victims and refugees on the other -- a girl accused of witchcraft; families made homeless, knowing "none in heaven or earth with any stake/in stopping it"; and the Californian "wild child" Genie. In a zone between are the harmlessly bewildered: a man who holds his own funeral, a TV weatherman wishing for hurricanes, women writing love letters to men on Death Row. Maxwell's first new collection since The Breakage (1999), this succession of lyrics and narratives captures the strangeness and splendor of America, its thin layer of normality, its historical origins in flight, longing, and trust in providence. Beyond the cultural context of these poems is an incisive and compassionate portrait of the human animal in the twenty-first century. The Nerve is a haunting, powerful book that strikes deep beneath the surface of daily life, "like a spell or a code that unlocks a safe" (P. N. Review). Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)821.914Literature English English poetry 1900- 1900-1999 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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