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Sto caricando le informazioni... Old Heart: Poemsdi Stanley Plumly
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This is an uneven book of poems. At his best, Plumly writes in a lyrical voice with an eye attuned to nature. He can write in a variety of meters and can use off-rhymes on occasion to pull his lines together. However, at least in this collection, he has an odd habit of wearing his allusions on his sleeve. So he has lines that begin with "Eliot says..." or "Keats wrote..." I don't know if it's an anti-modernism--instead of burying your allusions, you broadcast them--or some other sort of stylistic choice, but too often it makes his lines sound awkward. It also feels a bit like name-dropping to show off his erudition. Plumly should be comfortable enough in his career not to need the latter, so all I can assume is that it is a stylistic feature that fails as often as it works. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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"Successor to James Wright and John Keats, with a marvelous ear for the music of contemplation."--Rita Dove In his new collection, Stanley Plumly confronts and celebrates mortality--in the detailed natural world, in the immediacy of the loss of friends, and in personal encounters. Archetypal, sometimes even allegorical, the poems in Old Heart amount to a sustained meditation. The American Academy of Arts and Letters declared of Plumly that "he has in the last thirty years quietly, steadily, expanded the range of lyric poetry in English...[and] reinvigorated our poetry." His ethical rigor and literary modesty combine in Old Heart--his finest book of poetry. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)811.54Literature English (North America) American poetry 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
Sei tu?Diventa un autore di LibraryThing. W.W. Norton2 edizioni di questo libro sono state pubblicate da W.W. Norton. Edizioni: 0393065685, 0393333183 |
Maybe the poet, reading this kind of poetry, knows where the commas should be. But the casual reader is lost. I read a couple I mildly liked, but most of these were less than enjoyable. 2 stars
--Jim, 12/31/10 ( )