| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780520222601 | | Publisher: University of California Press | | Publish Date: 4/10/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 30565099 | | Item#: R26TDT | | Dimensions (in Inches) 7.75H x 5.75L x 0.25T | | Pages: 86 |
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| | | | "A man steps into an abandoned church, notes the debris at the altar, misses his mother, and starts to sing. Thus begins Mark Levine's astonishing second collection of poems which meld wit with the profoundest gravity, peculiar narratives with linguistic precision, and hubris with sorrow. Read them."--Susan Wheeler, author of "Smokes and Bag O' Diamonds" "Mark Levine's new poems conjure a post-cataclysmic, pre-apocalyptic world. Here things here tend to be rusty, wet, subject to dry rot, incomplete, or just plain out of kilter. People react to each other, but strangely or tentatively; they maybe 'asleep in the reeds with the migrating sea birds.' There are unlikely lists: 'Accordion, bamboo, crinoline, drift. / Burial, crabgrass, demonstration, edge.' It's a terrifying but hallucinatory interregnum, where '. . . the dead and the sick and the poor are singing too. / And the stars begin to fall, and though everybody is waiting / for a terrible surprise, it hasn't come, not just yet.' The ghosts who are waiting are memorable, and reading "Enola Gay is an unforgettable experience." --John Ashbery
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The poems in this second book are dense evocations of a world falling apart. Eschewing strict form, the author works with repetition and verbal echoes to unify these verbally complex poems.
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"[The poems] are at once lugubrious and desolate, and they travel in numbers. The landscapes Levine visits, both physical and emotional, are drowning in the aftermath of enormous destruction; he's there to provide the post-disaster analysis." - Melanie Rehak 05/30/2000New York Times Book Review
"Shards of story surface and resurface throughout ENOLA GAY...but most of Levine's poems resist straightforward narrative." - Deborah Weisgall 06/18/2000 Boston Review
"Despite--no, because of--its sarcastic overtones, what "John Keats" and ENOLA GAY in general show is that Levine--with all his hip bizarrie, discoherences, and occasional in-jokes--has gone all the way through, and come out the other side of, aggressive postmodern skepticism: we are wounded, partial, always already guilty machines, Levine says, but we still need art: here's mine." - Stephen Burt Summer 2000 Verse
"[U]nlike the bomber that is its namesake, Levine's second collection is as graceful as it is powerful, as kind as it is violent." |
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