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This hauntingly spare and subtle poetry collection consists of six sequences: during one month each year, for six years, Martha Collins wrote a short poem each day. With perfectly distilled lines, she captures the aching, liminal beauty of one day becoming another—the slow burn of time passing, the ambiguity of an "old / new leaf" turning over, even as she collages a wide range of material that includes often disturbing news of the world.
Writing in the tradition of poetic meditation, Collins shows us the full degree of her mastery—a mature voice, poems with tremendous scope, and lines exceptionally controlled. Here is the work of a seasoned poet at the height of her career.
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Release date
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Kindle Book
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9781571318480
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- ISBN: 9781571318480
- File size: 764 KB
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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May 15, 2018
Bold, bright, yet decidedly unsettled and unsettling, this first collection--next in the Yale Series of Younger Poets--doesn't so much explore Doan's Vietnamese American experience as defy it. "When my brother/ and sisters and I talk about Vietnamese/ pronouns, // we're ghosts/ reminiscing about facial expressions," he proclaims, and in the poem "romanticizing Vietnam" states, "I fail to see// meaning in the white lotus// blossoming in the swamp." Doan focuses instead on an exuberant physicality (sometimes edged with desperation), as many poems reference dance and sports and the speaker totes up erotic encounters with members of both sexes ("She had me in the car. I came forward like a song"). There's personal pain, too ("One night I look up/ and bang/ our family/ has torn our family/ apart forever." VERDICT Highly recommended.
Copyright 2018 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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