Cynthia Kraman

Made up of prose poems and short essays on art, along with two or three non-prose poems, this a collection built from fragments and images, philosophies and colors. While Kraman's self-styled experiments (as explained in her essays) are scattered and heavily grounded in concrete images, they are also so personal as to come across as more meditation than meaning. There are many wonderful moments--in language, in music, in image, and in thought--but the book as a whole rather blends together, and I'm afraid that, in the end, I won't find it particularly memorable compared to other poetry collections that have all but forced me to reread the, share them, and think on them long after they were closed. This one will stick with me because of some of the ideas, and because of its set-up, but not particularly because of the poems or the power of it all, which is what I'd prefer from a collection of poems.… (más)