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Bezig met laden... Early Hourdoor Michael McGriff
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"It's [McGriff's] language that keeps you reading along, transfixed."--New York Times Book Review "A lyricist at heart, McGriff is a masterful maker of metaphor." --Third Coast "McGriff's vivid grit remains hard to gainsay."--Publishers Weekly A book-length sequence inspired by the Nazi-persecuted German Expressionist painter Karl Hofer's work, McGriff's third collection meditates on eros, cosmology, independence, provenance, "occupied territories," and deviance. Detailed yet indeterminately American landscapes flood with surrealist dream imagery and subtle violence, while the voice of these poems intertwines between the intimately personal and the honestly imagined--all while remaining plainspoken, angular, direct. From Cosmology The river moves beneath the sheet ice. The wind is a grand hall of records. In the recipe box above the refrigerator, the deathbed photos of four generations-- somewhere, their hands have turned to prime numbers... Michael McGriff is the author of three books of poetry and an acclaimed collection of short stories,Our Secret Life in the Movies. His writing has appeared inThe New York Times, Poetry, Bookforum, The Believer, Tin House, American Poetry Review, and on NPR'sWeekend Edition Sunday and PBSNewsHour. He is currently teaching at the University of Idaho. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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So many poets today strain to juxtapose images in an attempt at some kind of surrealism--and most often fail. McGriff's imagery seems right even as it causes you to gasp at what has been gathered together in a sentence or a phrase:
the outline of your face
is sky-written in the black loam
of thunderheads.
Another example:
because the river's teeth
still gnash
against [the horse's] flank
and its eyes
stil have the luster
of black china
glowing black-bright
in the glass hutch of memory
The imagery is both from nature and domestic life, putting himself, his wife, their relationship and their daily living deep into the natural world--as it should be.
A fine a small collection to be savored. ( )