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Overview
"The first impressions Danielle Blau's poems give the reader are impressions of newness and immediacy. These impressions also happen to be, along with the many others that billow out of these rich and abundant poems, the second and fifth (and fiftieth) impressions. Blau's newness and immediacy aren't ephemeral or fugitive. They aren't calculated or contrived. And they aren't generated from fashionable detailing or cultural signalling. Her poems glitter, and they're incredibly energetic, but they're never flashy, and their persuasiveness derives from deep sources. Though her flexible diction is present-day, though she has a gender-specific savviness and élan that probably wouldn't have been possible before the advent of the twenty-first century (or thereabouts), though she's street-wise, nothing in her work is just contemporary, nothing is independent of anything else. As hip as she is, she's also a throwback to the Romantic vocation of organic form. All her effects are emanations of the fullness with which her sensibility inhabits language and the confident way her imagination takes possession of her experience ... peep is a tour de force, and it's more than a tour de force. It displays deep within itself, for all its intellectual and imaginative power and self-delight, a curious tenderness and vulnerability. The book glories in language and thinking; it's imaginative and bold; but it's also intimate. If I were asked to account for this intimacy, especially in the face of all the other effects that Blau realizes, I might say, diffidently, that Blau is the performer of her own experience, but she is also its scholar and critic."Vijay Seshadri
Poetry.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781911379034 |
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Publisher: | The Waywiser Press |
Publication date: | 04/27/2022 |
Pages: | 112 |
Product dimensions: | 5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.40(d) |
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Table of Contents
Foreword Vijay Seshadri xi
The Vernal Equinox Story 3
I
The Fear 7
A Suicide Bomber (Eighteen Seconds to Go) Foresees Her Death 18
The Insider 19
The gap between 20
II
Ostinato 25
Full Rhymes to Live (More Fully) By 26
Inventory 31
Creation Myth 32
Whose Hands 33
The Spare Room 34
Villanelle 37
Hapax Legomenon 38
We're Human, All of Us Girls, and We're Young 42
Some Views f/ Thingèd Surface 44
Magus 46
No News Today 49
Nth Sunday in Ordinary Time 50
(Blessed Are) They Who Preserve 51
III
Family Thanksgiving on Brimstone Island, Maine 57
Formal Proof That the Universe Is Neither Cruel nor Kind, and That This Is the Greatest Conceivable Horror 58
5 Revelation Loop Apt 5L 60
How Long Now Since the Mailman's Gone Missing? 62
Ileocecal 63
I Am the Perennial Head of This One-person Subcutaneous Wrecking Crew 64
Conversations with Death 65
In the Valley of the Choice Vine II: The Wax Museum 71
Penance 72
Arpeggio Progression in Missing Key 73
A Note About the Author 83
A Note About the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize 85