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Title: World's Tallest Disaster by Cate Marvin, Robert Pinsky ISBN: 1-889330-61-2 Publisher: Sarabande Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Brilliant, Beautiful, and sometimes Scathing
Comment: The poems in The World's Tallest Disaster seem to me very often word by word perfect, poems that knocked the breath out of me a little. In the spirit of Plath and Larkin, the poems can be caustic, funny, and beautiful (and yeah even cruel) all at the same time. They bring to life a consistent personality behind the words, even though, as Pinsky states in the introduction, the poems don't belong to any one particular school. The voice or persona (or whatever you want to call it) is blunt and trustworthy with an eloquent and disarming honesty. The language is always there. It's the best collection I've read in years.
Rating: 4
Summary: Enjoyable Pain
Comment: Marvin's poetry drips with anger, pain, and lost love. None of these are new to poetry and are often overdone. Yet Marvin's poems are different and the strong, clear emotions are part of a strange enjoyment of them. The first poem "Reader, Please" is not a typical welcome to a collection, but a door slammed in the face, the "please" saying I don't need or want sympathy. A lot of contemporary poetry steers away from unpleasant emotion while Marvin wraps both hands around them and dares us to read about it. Other favorite poems include "Why Sleep," "Landscape Without You," "Please," "The Articulate," and "The Readership" with great play on the ship in readership. I also suspect some influence of Berryman in her poem, "The Condition" which begins "what we share most is boredom, friend."
Rating: 5
Summary: much better on second reading
Comment: There are some nice surprises here. Other times the poems seem personal to the point of mere complaining ("You didn't light my cigarette"). Cate Marvin has become justly famous for the line "Lots of ladies sing along to the radio / now. But the hole of our mouths holds a howl." I believe the poet has big things to say but sometimes she appears to direct her considerable power at small displacements: an awkward date, an inconsiderate oversight, someone's inattention. Even so the book is crafted, entertaining, and moving. I gave it a bad review at first, picked it up again later, and realized it's really very good.
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Title: And Her Soul Out of Nothing (The Brittingham Prize in Poetry) by Olena Kalytiak Davis ISBN: 0299157148 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Shattered Sonnets, Love Cards, and Other Off and Back Handed Importunities by Olena Kalytiak Davis ISBN: 1582343527 Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Pub. Date: 10 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form: Poems by Matthea Harvey ISBN: 1882295269 Publisher: Alice James Books Pub. Date: 2000 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: The Darker Fall: Poems by Rick Barot ISBN: 1889330736 Publisher: Sarabande Books Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Sad Little Breathing Machine by Matthea Harvey ISBN: 1555973965 Publisher: Graywolf Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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