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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. From: A Poet Whispers In the Ear of Congress http://wp.me/p14mpp-e9 Fairfield, California poet Kay Ryan is the winner of many awards, the latest being a MacArthur Grant. Her work is impressive, short easy-to-read poems with a punch. The collection Niagara River contains 60 plus of these poems. I especially like the title poem, which has a Zen like message comparing time to the flow of a river. For the above blog posting I used her poem Home to Roost to encourage Congress to be a little more responsible. This is a good collection of short poems on many topics. I have a problem reading collections of short poems— my mind wanders after reading one or two. Perhaps I would like them delivered by email: one or two a week would be special. Compact poems, satisfying in their brevity and weird music/rhymes, as if no one's rhymed quite that way, quite like that before. Real wit and fresh turns on trite and familiar sayings/sentiments. She manages to evoke quite a bit with few strokes--at times they feel like sayings or aphorisms, perhaps a little too neat and tidy, though. A comparison to Cornell boxes is apt. Ryan's voice is beautiful but I found her insistence on extreme brevity limiting. This was my first dip into her work, though, and perhaps it was a stylistic choice for this volume? Mostly, I kept expecting a sudden release -- as the title and cover graphic seemed to indicate -- and it never came. Perhaps the point was to sweep us towards our own understanding. I'll have to reread. There are lovely, masterful images at play, though, and her "Atlas" is wonderful. I recognized myself often. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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I liked a great deal of the poems that I read here. In particular I found "Pitcher" and "Chinese Foot Chart" particularly evocative. I liked the title poem a great deal and the abundance of nature imagery within. The poetry was all very well written, but it lacked for me some of the express bluntness of Sappho's work and the wild burning urgency of Richard Siken's. Nevertheless, this is certainly a good read and a worthy one. ( )