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Sto caricando le informazioni... Eternity: Selected Poemsdi Tracy K. Smith
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I used to read a bunch of poetry, but I gave up on it years ago because so much of it was just frustrating to read. A few weeks ago, I listened to an interview between Ezra Klein and Tracy K. Smith that convinced me to give her work a try. I think what I've realized, having now read this book, is that poetry really has to be read well aloud to land for me. I tune in more to the sounds than the meanings. And this is why I sort of gave up on poetry so long ago, after my college days when I had a lot more opportunities to hear it aloud. The poems Smith read in that interview sounded marvelous, and the way she and Klein talked about poems really brought me in and made me want to give these poems a try. But so many of them fell flat for me; in spite of trying to be mindful about reading carefully, I'd fine myself kind of scanning lazily down the page and feeling unmoved. A few really did speak to me, though. I think Smith is a good poet, and I've merely become a bad reader of poetry. Some of the stronger work in this collection is the more recent work. The found poems and the erasure poem in the final collection worked especially well for me. I'd love to hear Smith deliver a reading; I don't think I've converted back to a daily poetry reader myself. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Tracy K. Smith's poetry seems to contain the whole universe. From the earliest work gathered here, we find the voices and experiences of women who have lived adventurously, who have travelled, desired, and found themselves drinking at bars with strangers in lands far from home; we find records of tenderness and of conflict, of the cruelty inflicted on humanity by humanity, and remarkable documentary work bearing witness to the victims of injustice, from a Native American boy separated from his family by the US Government to the girls kidnapped as 'wives' for rebel commanders in Uganda. This volume gathers the poet's selections from her four collections published since 2003, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Life on Mars, which expands the scope still further, finding in outer space - and the work of David Bowie - a rich vein of questions about life and death, power and paternalism, and race; and Wade in the Water, whose explorations of motherhood and the destruction of the environment intertwine with verbatim histories of slavery and the American Civil War. These are sensuous, light-filled poems, capable of finding the luminous, the transcendent and a principle of love in even the most difficult of subjects. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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