At Passages [Paperback]

Michael Palmer (Author)

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From Library Journal

The poems in Palmer's new book may strike the reader as being in a state of constant disintegration. They reassemble, hold for a few lines, and fall to pieces again: "flower with a death's head at its center/center with a desert at its center/clock with ochre hands/its face a sun the sun/a multiple sun at 3 a.m./sun of limbs and sun of the lens/flower as it were a limb" and so on. At their best, the units that comprise the disintegration are compelling. But, then, evaluation is not the point. If meaning is exchanged in the culture of these poems, it's only by consenting adults and certainly shouldn't be an organized activity. There are those who take pleasure in this sort of thing, and this reviewer is one of them. Recommended for academic library collections.?Steven R. Ellis, Brooklyn P.L.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review

An Anniversary
Autobiography
Autobiography 2 (hellogoodby); For A.c.
Cites
Disclosures
Eighth Sky
Erolog
Far Away Near
Fontana Dom
From The Anthology (w's Dream)
In C
'kn'
The Leonardo Improvisations: 1
The Leonardo Improvisations: 2
The Leonardo Improvisations: 3
The Leonardo Improvisations: 4
The Leonardo Improvisations: 5
Letters To Zanzotto: Letter 1
Letters To Zanzotto: Letter 2
Letters To Zanzotto: Letter 3
Letters To Zanzotto: Letter 4
Letters To Zanzotto: Letter 5
Letters To Zanzotto: Letter 6
Letters To Zanzotto: Letter 7
Letters To Zanzotto: Letter 8
'march '93'
O You In That Little Bark
Poems Within A Matrix For War: 1. H
Poems Within A Matrix For War: 2. Construction Of The Museum
Poems Within A Matrix For War: 3. (april '91)
Poems Within A Matrix For War: 4. H
Poems Within A Matrix For War: 5. Wheel
Poems Within A Matrix For War: 6. 24 Logics In Memory Of Lee Hickman
Poems Within A Matrix For War: 7. 'or Anything Resembling It'
Recursus
Red Yellow Blue
Sb
Six Hermetic Songs
Small Night Song For Jacques Roubaud
So We Traveled
Under The Perseids
Untitled (far Away Near)
Untitled (february '92)
Untitled (september '92)
Who Is To Say
Writer's Dream (the Wagon)
Writer's Dream (untitled)
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Product Details

• Paperback: 101 pages
• Publisher: New Directions (April 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0811212947
• ISBN-13: 978-0811212946
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,894,692 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Michael Palmer, is the author of sixteen novels of medical and political suspense, all international bestsellers. His 17th medical and political thriller, OATH OF OFFICE will be released on February 14,2012. In addition to writing, Palmer is an associate director of the Massachusetts Medical Society Physician Health Services, devoted to helping physicians troubled by mental illness, physical illness, behavioral issues, and chemical dependency. He lives in eastern Massachusetts.

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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Significant Nexus of Dicourses, April 17, 2000

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crumbcake (Rhinebeck, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: At Passages (Paperback)

Michael Palmer's poems seem to me use the best strategies of language poetry in service of the romantic lyric.

This book is both Bread and Wafer (as Anais Nin put in a chapter of "Ladders to Fire") to me--it feeds the spiritual and intellectual heart and also satisfies the physical desire of real bodied pleasure.