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Sto caricando le informazioni... Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poemsdi Rita Dove
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Poetry's not my "go-to" genre unless it's accompanied by a 2x4 whacked against my head to help me uncover the underlying message. But maybe I'm not sampling the good stuff. Reading Rita Dove was like growing up on Two Buck Chuck and suddenly winning an all-expenses vacation to Napa Valley. Show me someone else writing: "Who are these children? Who had them and with whom? Through the general coffee tones the shamed genetics cut a creamy swathe. Cherokee's burnt umber transposed onto generous lips, a glance flares gray above the crushed nose we label Anonymous African: It's all here, the beautiful geometry of Mendel's peas and their grim logic--" I read most of my books from the library. This is a purchase because I keep coming back to it. Powerful! "Lucille, Post-Operative Years" Most often she couldn't think - which is to say she thought of everything, and at once - catfish in the bathtub, a bowl of oatmeal nailed with a butter square, her disappointment palpable as bread... (7) "The Spring Cricket Repudiates His Parable of Negritude" ... Seriously: All wisdom is an afterthought, a sort of helpless relief. So don't go thinking none of this grief belongs to you... (50) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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"A piercing, unflinching new volume offers necessary music for our tumultuous present, from "perhaps the best public poet we have" (Boston Globe). In her first volume of new poems in twelve years, Rita Dove investigates the vacillating moral compass guiding America's, and the world's, experiments in democracy. Whether depicting the first Jewish ghetto in sixteenth-century Venice or Black Lives Matter, this extraordinary poet never fails to connect history's grand exploits to the triumphs and tragedies of individual lives-the simmering resentment of an elevator operator, an octogenarian's exuberant mambo, the mordant humor of a philosophizing cricket. Audaciously playful yet grave, alternating poignant meditations on mortality and acerbic observations of injustice, Playlist for the Apocalypse takes us from the smallest moments of redemption to apocalyptic failures of the human soul"-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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The book is broken into six sections. While I found meaning throughout, my favorite sections were "After Egypt" (with poems such as "Elevator Man, 1949") and "Little Book of Woe" (about her MS diagnosis; "Soup" is perhaps my favorite in this collection). And don't skip the book's intro, "Prose in a Small Space." It sets the tone.
Playlist for the Apocalypse was an NPR, NYT, and Publishers Weekly best book of 2021 and also won the 2022 Library of Virginia Literary Award for Poetry. I can see why. It's not that Dove writes about life-changing events, big and small, but how she writes about them. And thank goodness she does. As summed up in "Climacteric":
"...If loving every minute spent jostling syllables / while out in the world others slog through their messes / implies such shuttered industry is selfish or irresponsible // then I'm the one who's fled. Ta-ta! I'm not ashamed; / each word caught right is a pawned memory, humbly reclaimed." ( )