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Joan Houlihan

Autore di The Us: Poems

6 opere 30 membri 2 recensioni

Sull'Autore

Joan Houlihan is founding director of the Concord Poetry Center in Concord, Massachusetts, where she also teaches.

Opere di Joan Houlihan

The Us: Poems (2009) 12 copie
The Mending Worm (2006) 6 copie
Ay (2014) 5 copie
Hand-Held Executions (2003) 3 copie
Shadow-feast (2018) 2 copie

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Informazioni generali

Nome legale
Houlihan, Joan
Data di nascita
1951
Nazionalità
USA
Luogo di residenza
Massachusetts, USA
Attività lavorative
dichter
docent
Organizzazioni
Lesley University

Utenti

Recensioni

I read this while taking an anthropology course in my 70s. How well the course and the poetry fit together. How well this book helped me understand the shock of an early society confronted by a society of the 20c.
 
Segnalato
mykl-s | Feb 25, 2023 |
A fine experiment in primitivist language. Houlihan here uses a diction entirely from the Anglo-Saxon to suggest the mind of a human on the verge of or just passed into language. The basic plot is a youth who leaves the clan, injured physically and by the separation, who reunites with his literal or tribal brother, and who is baptized in the end with a rain of consciousness and perhaps forgiveness.

The poetry is brilliant with clarity in observation of nature. I got used to the almost precious use of "Ay" as a name of "I." However, the use of "hims" and "thems" as possessives seemed unnecessary and distracting. A quibble.

Houlihan writes with a wonderfully musical ear. It is pleasing in a time of poetry that is prosaic to the point of dullness to hear language rise from the page. It is a brave experiment, and it largely works.
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Segnalato
dasam | Jul 25, 2017 |

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Statistiche

Opere
6
Utenti
30
Popolarità
#449,942
Voto
½ 3.5
Recensioni
2
ISBN
6
Lingue
1