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Bezig met laden... Saving Daylight (2006)door Jim Harrison
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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. the poem this book opened with ("water") floored me. it was a great start for what is overall a really good collection of poems. there are a few in here that just blew me away, and fewer that i didn't like at all. mostly it's nice language and cadence, and poems about life, nature, mortality. (by the end i'd gotten attached to his dog rose, just by how often she was mentioned.) this is my first jim harrison and i'm glad i read it. "Divide your death by your life and you get a circle, though I'm not so good at math." (from "Adding it Up") my favorites are all short, so: Water Before I was born I was water. I thought of this sitting on a blue chair surrounded by pink, red, white hollyhocks in the yard in front of my green studio. There are conclusions to be drawn but I can't do it anymore. Born man, child man, singing man, dancing man, loving man, old man, dying man. This is a round river and we are her fish who become water. The Bear When my propane ran out when I was gone and the food thawed in the freezer I grieved over the five pounds of melted squid, but then a big gaunt bear arrived and feasted on the garbage, a few tentacles left in the grass, purplish white worms. O bear, now that you've tasted the ocean I hope your dreamlife contains the whales I've seen, that one in the Humboldt current basking on the surface who seemed to watch the seabirds wheeling around her head. Angry Women Women in peignoirs are floating around the landscape well out of eyesight let alone reach. They are as palpable as the ghost of my dog Rose whom I see on long walks, especially when exhausted and my half-blind eyes are blurred by cold wind or sleet or snow. The women we've mistreated never forgive us nor should they, thus their ghostly energies thrive at dawn and twilight in this vast country where any of the mind's movies can be played against this rumpled wide-screened landscape. Our souls are travelers. You can tell when your own is gone, and then these bleak, improbable visits from others, their dry tears because you were never what you weren't, so that the world becomes only what it is, the unforgiving flow of an unfathomable river. Still they wanted you otherwise, closer to their dream child, just as you imagined fair maidens tight to you as decals to guide you toward certainties. The new pup, uncrippled by ideals, leaps against the fence, leaps at the mountains beyond. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Although best known for his fiction, Jim Harrison's poetry has earned him recognition as an "untrammeled renegade genius." This, his tenth collection of poetry--and first in a decade--is grounded in thickets and rivers, birds and bears, and the solace of dogs in a crazed political world. Whether contemplating the ephemerality of 90 billion galaxies or the immediate grace of a waitress, Harrison relishes the art and mysteries of being alive. "I'm enrolled in a school without visible teachers," he writes in the title poem, "the divine mumbling just out of ear shot." Mr. Harrison divides his time between Montana and southern Arizona.--From publisher description. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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"In Livingston I'm back home in Reed City / over fifty years ago when trains were steam but the cows / and alleys were the same, the friendly town mongrels / I said hello to, one who walked with me an hour / before turning home when we crossed his street."
It's obvious why I liked this. Or, from "After the War," remembering his early years in Reed City, surrounded by siblings and veteran uncles -
"During Wold War II my brother John / and I would holler 'bombs over Tokyo' / when we pooped. A different kind of war."
Many of the poems here attest to a profound love for the many dogs Harrison has shared his life with, a preoccupation with aging and death, and a mostly irreverent attitude toward religion, as in "Incomprehension" -
"The church says God is a spy / who keeps track of how we misuse our genitals. He always yawns / at the beginning of work."
I know I'm cherry-picking here, but I'm forced to stick with the ones I thought I kinda understood, or the lines that made me laugh. There are also a few nods and lines to or about his poet friends Ted Kooser and Dan Gerber. But I'm gonna quit while I'm ahead. Jim Harrison left us six years ago but his written work - and there is a LOT - will be with us for a long time. RIP, Jim. You've made Reed City proud. Very highly recommended especially for poetry lovers.
- Tim Bazzett, author of the REED CITY BOY trilogy ( )