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Title: The Orchard (American Poets Continuum V. 82) by Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Brigit Kelly Pegen ISBN: 1-929918-48-8 Publisher: BOA Editions Pub. Date: 01 April, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Struck
Comment: A few decades back, when Jon Anderson wrote that "the secret of poetry is cruelty," he must have had something like Brigit Kelly's poems in mind. Kelly's third book, The Orchard, continues her fascination with the suffering and cruelty that lies somewhere between the animal and the human, obsessing over pain directly linked with physical beauty.
It's important to note that the speaker in Kelly's poem is a witness to suffering rather than an instigator. She seeks to comfort and justify those in pain, the human and animal, the living and the dead, to name them with poetical power, as she does a diseased dog in "The Wolf," linking that dog to wolf and then wolf to myth, making "of her something / Better than she could make of herself". This poem is one of the finest in a collection full of fine poems.
And Kelly likes her descriptions steeped in beauty and terror. In the last line of "Elegy" she writes, "Brighter than a bed of lilies struck by snow." That violent "struck" means everything to Kelly's poetics. It's subtle, hidden between the blinding purity of the lilies and the snow.
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Title: October (Quarternote Chapbook Series, 3) by Louise Gluck ISBN: 1932511008 Publisher: Consortium Pub. Date: 01 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Trouble in Mind : Poems by LUCIE BROCK-BROIDO ISBN: 1400040833 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 20 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Shattered Sonnets, Love Cards, and Other Off and Back Handed Importunities by Olena Kalytiak Davis ISBN: 1582343527 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: What Narcissism Means to Me by Tony Hoagland ISBN: 1555973868 Publisher: Graywolf Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Walking to Martha's Vineyard: Poems by Franz Wright ISBN: 0375415181 Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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