- Paperback: 80 pages
- Publisher: University Press Of New England (Feb 10 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0819511870
- ISBN-13: 978-0819511874
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 17.7 x 0.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 168 g
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From Publishers Weekly
Although departing from the narrative-based style of his past work, Dickey (one title/pk Falling, May Day Sermon, and Other Poems ) is still deeply committed to the presentation of reality in incongruous terms. His use of language itself is innovative; words are hitched together to create new, slightly unnatural juxtapositions (as in "the fountain-twist of flight" in the title poem). In some poems, such as "The Olympian," detailing the speaker's race around a swimming pool with a rat afloat, the poet disassembles ordinary situations, filters the pieces--his language and perceptions--through his imagination, and puts them back together in such a way that his experience has become a type of hallucination. Much of the poetry examines the poet's belief in the momentum of nature, "overcoming, coming over us / And from us," creating and destroying, propelling us headlong into the uncertainty of the future, never stopping to heed the authority of our rational minds. This demanding yet illuminating collection takes readers on a soaring, swooping flight to the outermost reaches of consciousness.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
It's exciting to see a poet of Dickey's stature take the risk of writing such an experimental book. He has blown wide open his traditional narrative, allowing for an intense word play reminiscent of Hopkins: " . . . steep and straight-up/ In the eagle's mile/ Let Adam, far from the close-smoke of mills/ And blue as the foot/ Of every flame, true-up with blind-side out-flash/ The once-more instantly/ Wild world: Over Brasstown Bald/ Splinter uncontrollably whole." Story and sense are not abandoned, but made subject to the sheer excitement of language: " . . . everywhere there is land,/ Brother: boundless,/ Earthbound, trouble-free, and all you want--/ Joy like short grass." This is writing on the edge, and not everything succeeds. But it marks a major departure for a major poet.
-Kathleen Norris, Lemmon P.L., S.D.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
-Kathleen Norris, Lemmon P.L., S.D.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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