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Title: The Darker Fall: Poems by Rick Barot ISBN: 1-889330-73-6 Publisher: Consortium Pub. Date: October, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.25 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A truly talented poet
Comment: Get this book if you're looking for real poetry writing. Barot is an amazing poet who has an amazing eye. His images are exact, precise, beautiful, and powerful. He follows in the tradition of Elizabeth Bishop. He is clearly a smart and thinking poet. He writes about intelligent things. Granted, some people might find this a bit "high brow" for them, it is not for the unsophisticated poetry reader. If you want simple, go read Billy Collins or some other easier poet. If you want something more challenging, get this book. Start with easier poems like "Occupations" and "At Point Reyes" and then go for all the poems on the philosophers. You'll ease into it better. There is no other poet writing like Barot today and you owe it to yourself to read him if you are a lover of poetry.
Rating: 2
Summary: Average First Book of Poems
Comment: I read this book after two different people recommended it to me. I should mention that both people who recommended the book are friends of Barot's. I found this book to be rather average in terms of first books. I wasn't impressed, and I wasn't annoyed. I am not sure what to make of all the attention this book is getting on Amazon; clearly Barot has friends and enemies. This book lead me to believe Barot has talent, but like many first books, the talent has yet to be realized here. Many of these poems are too hermetic, too in love with beauty to see the real subjects behind the poems. That this book won a contest doesn't surprise me. I am sure it is better than the vast majority of book manuscripts being entered in the contests. But in the grand scheme of things, this book is simply a signal there might be better things to come. This is a book worthy of a read, just not worthy of a purchase. Check your local library.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Beautiful Book
Comment: "An idea in a poem," Wittgenstein once wrote, "is overstated if the intellectual points are nakedly exposed, not clothed from the heart." While there are as many Wittgensteins as there are poetries, I can think of no other recent book in which the ideas are so gloriously fitted-out as Rick Barot's The Darker Fall. It's hard to quote from this book, or rather, it's hard to select just one quote from this book, since there isn't a single weak poem in this book (and how many first books can you say that about?) and since Barot's gift for image and metaphor (those famously unteachable gifts) is unequaled by any young poet I can think of, and not that many older poets. Here's a few: one sky "opaquely clean as a bottle's bottom," another sky "plum-black, woodsmoke / waxing on its skin." "the view from a window down to wet cars, / each roof a nail painted in black polish." The influences which shaped this book include the ones referred to in the book (Montale and Bishop) and also (among many others) the early Bloodlines and China Trace era Charles Wright, the Wright of "Tattoos" and "Skins," a poet fiercely grounded in place, but able make each place an element of a personal mythology. Which is to say that I don't see a ceiling for this talent.
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