A collection of concise poems, both new and previously published, features selections from Powers, as well as ""Other hands,"" ""A visit to David Smith,"" ""Grandma Becky,"" and ""The light of the moon."" Reprint.
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From Publishers Weekly
An art historian at Johns Hopkins, Fried ventures skillfully into poetry with this collection of precise, imagistic poems. The work is focused on the natural world, calling on such themes as "The Thunder Orchard" and "The Flash of Lightning." The words themselves are carefully chosen. A few poems, such as the single-line "Powers" and "Poem," are so brief that they seem to resist the reader, and in these the sensibilities of an artist seem curiously absent. Yet the speaker in other poems can be remarkably charming, and the smallness of the poems often belies a real depth of feeling. In "Packing Up," he describes leaving a disinterested lover, and concludes, "I stack another room of books/ Inside three tea-chests and nail them shut./ I wish words mattered less to me." In "Cloudburst," Fried writes of the experience, "The mist rolled away,/ I stood there drenched and shaking/ Transformed into a bull." Fried has a gift for keen observation, and it is interesting to imagine both larger poems and the possible translation of some of these lines onto the canvas.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
These poems are mostly short and sometimes epigrammatic. With work of such brevity, one expects, and is rewarded with, strong lines and crisp, sharp images. This is particularly true in a section called "Powers," with its broad consideration of war, air, seas, rivers, highways, and the secrets of the heart. Here is one poem ("Assassination") in full: "Black now as frozen lakes/The tall buildings of New York/Make awkward mourners." Ultimately, it is wisdom the reader comes away with-not so much answers to the great questions but honest views of real life. Fried (art history, Johns Hopkins) has published abroad, but this is his first collection to be published in America. Highly recommended.
Louis McKee, Painted Bride Arts Ctr., Philadelphia
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Louis McKee, Painted Bride Arts Ctr., Philadelphia
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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