- Paperback: 200 pages
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press (Feb 5 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0252070488
- ISBN-13: 978-0252070488
- Product Dimensions: 21.9 x 15 x 1.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 277 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Like seventysomething Donald Hall's new collection, The Painted Bed [BKL Mr 1 02], seventysomething Wagoner's may strike faithful readers as his best. It consists of 100 poems in six groups. In the first section are poems about occupations, from that of a traditional Gilbert Islands songmaker to that of the old apple tree (namely, making apples). In the second are autobiographical presentations of the poet as son, student, traveler, host, and father. The third consists of imagined episodes from Thoreau's life in the woods. Various public performers--sensory-deprivation subjects, athletes, howling coyotes, actors, panhandlers, noisy quarrelers, witnesses in criminal court--are the subjects of the fourth section. The fifth part is a sequence, "The Lost Traveler's Dream," and the last features poems about birds, hunting, and some customs and legends of the Indians of Wagoner's homeland, the Pacific Northwest. Written in stair-step triplets or faux blank verse, unrhymed, perfectly voiced, these are riveting expository pieces about the miracles of living--alone, in a community, as a creature among creatures, and as bodies among spirits. Ray Olson
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Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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"May strike faithful readers as his best... Written in stair-step triplets or faux blank verse, unrhymed, perfectly voiced, these are riveting expository pieces about the miracles of living -- alone, in a community, as a creature among creatures, and as bodies among spirits." -- Booklist "Wagoner unfailingly makes words that do what the world does... In 'The House of Song,' he is at his best. His words are a living link to the world, enacting it so vitally that they feel like natural facts." -- Richard Wakefield, The Seattle Times "[Wagoner] insures that no person, no creature, no plant goes without a poem inscribing something especially characteristic of it... And that wherever one looks in the world there is something interesting, amusing, or touching, worthy of record." -- Virginia Quarterly Review
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Master lyricist,
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This review is from: The HOUSE OF SONG: POEMS (Paperback)
I liked the lyrical nature of the poems he wrote, but some were a little lacking. For me, a good poem has to have substance, but I missed some of that in this poetry selection. Perhaps I'm not looking deeply enough, but the best poems by David have always been his nature poems, and I felt this didn't have enough of those to form a complete collection.Sometimes his poems have compelling rhetoric that make you think deeply, and his style is at its peak. Other times I feel there is no connection between his words and their actual meaning, just experiences he happened to write down. Lyricism, as usual, is great, top-notch, and needs no refining. Wonderfully written if you are a Wagoner fan, but if you can, try to get his latest book of collected poems, Traveling Light. That's my favorite poetry book right now. :)
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Master lyricist,
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This review is from: The HOUSE OF SONG: POEMS (Paperback)
I liked the lyrical nature of the poems he wrote, but some were a little lacking. For me, a good poem has to have substance, but I missed some of that in this poetry selection. Perhaps I'm not looking deeply enough, but the best poems by David have always been his nature poems, and I felt this didn't have enough of those to form a complete collection.Sometimes his poems have compelling rhetoric that make you think deeply, and his style is at its peak. Other times I feel there is no connection between his words and their actual meaning, just experiences he happened to write down. Lyricism, as usual, is great, top-notch, and needs no refining. Wonderfully written if you are a Wagoner fan, but if you can, try to get his latest book of collected poems, Traveling Light. That's my favorite poetry book right now. :) |
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