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Poetry. "An oblique conversation with Degas reigns throughout this collection of oddly heartbreaking pieces. Against the backdrop of his paintings and sketches, we find ourselves in an intimate world, coherent but uncanny, where private memory becomes inseparable from the culture we hold in common, and all of it just barely cracked open, riven by interstices through which we glimpse the vivid but unsayable. White has given us a truly exceptional first collection, deeply musical and intricately haunting"—Cole Swensen. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The truth is, I'm afraid of God--whoever I am, creation is over. And the bronze horse stands under an apple tree, a bronze jockey on her back. The human heart is an apple, he says, pointing to an X-ray of his chest. But what shape or comfort can I make with my mind? The horse holds up her cardboard sign, All words can do now is say.
See? That is good stuff. But it's not representative of the book in general. Normally she takes longer to get there. Also, I'm not sure the Degas stuff is working for me, but that could just be my ignorance of Degas in general. I have a feeling that the Degas stuff feels a little like a structure she is hanging on to, but is entirely unneeded. Again, that is just a feeling. Along with that point, I also feel like she is trying to direct the poems too much. So many of them are about her parents and about dancing, that I feel like they are not as organic as they could be. There is something that could arise and surprise the writer herself, but I feel like this is not happening in enough poems, but that they are merely following the arc of the book. Thus, there is a sense of stiltedness to it all, even though it's a very beautiful stilted-ness.
Despite my reservations, she's a good poet and I'm eager to see what direction she takes in future books. ( )