The Charm, simply put, is a graceful and accomplished book of poetry. Heir to William Blake's legacy - for its pithy, unusual and deadly precise lyrics - the poems mark a maturing in an already terrific poet's oeuvre. And like much of Blake's poetry, these poems are inviting, deceptively disarming and reward readers' closer inspections, as they become bigger, more complex, and more beautiful. Classic is the word that comes to mind when considering this book - a book by which we judge other books, a book writers consult to discover the craft of poetry, a book for generations.
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"Fagan's poetry is stealthy, inventive, and wonderful.... She is writing some of the wisest and alluring poems of our day." -- Beckian Fritz Goldberg
"The Charm dissolves the leaden circles in the air and charms with fresh carols." -- Edward Hirsch
Kathy Fagan's rage is subtle, her love draws you in....Strange, entertaining, and touching by turns.... -- Bob Hicok
"The Charm dissolves the leaden circles in the air and charms with fresh carols." -- Edward Hirsch
Kathy Fagan's rage is subtle, her love draws you in....Strange, entertaining, and touching by turns.... -- Bob Hicok
About the Author
Kathy Fagan is the author of MOVING & ST RAGE (University of North Texas Press, 1999), winner of the Vassar Miller Prize for Poetry, and The Raft (Dutton, 1985), a National Poetry Series selection. Her work has appeared in such places as The New Republic, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Antaeus, The Kenyon Review, and Field, and in the anthologies Under 35: The New Generation of American Poets, The Geography of Home: California and the Poetry of Place, The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American Women, The Breath of Parted Lips: Poems from the Robert Frost Place, and American Diaspora: Poetry of Displacement. Winner of a Pushcart Prize and the Editors Prize from The Missouri Review, Fagan has received fellowships from the NEA, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the Ohio Arts Council. She is currently a Professor of English at The Ohio State University, where she teaches in the MFA Program and co-edits The Journal.
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Kathy Fagan is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Lip (2009), available on amazon and from Eastern Washington University Press. The Charm (Zoo, 2002) and the Vassar Miller Prize winner MOVING & ST RAGE (University of North Texas, 1999) are also available on amazon. Her first book, National Poetry Series selection, The Raft (Dutton, 1985), is hard to find. Fagan is the recipient of grants, awards, and fellowships from the NEA, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Frost Place, the Ohio Arts Council, and Ohioana Library. She teaches in the MFA Program at The Ohio State University, where she also edits The Journal.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Poetry that is Musical and Refined without being Arch,
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A terrific book of terrific poems! The artful choice and use of the images serve the soft burn of the poet's keeness. Fagan's images are original and authentic. Her poems are musical, refined, and highly sophisticated without being arch. Her vision exuberantly served up with big heaps of clarity. For Fagan, rather than art dull us, it actually serves to take us beyond our schematta of routine... (routine too often inures us to the real valence of our lives). Blake and Virgil keep me keen. Kathy Fagan and Erin Belieu are two more of my all time favorite authors to read! They too are smart. Their poems ranging from good hearted mischief to profound praise. Blake, Virgil, Belieu, and Fagan. Leave it to this poet to take our wakefulness, pick it up, dust it off, and have it resonating again with wonder!
1 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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college student's review,
By dziambam (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Charm (Paperback)
Kathy Fagan's The Charm, is much more materialistic, giving every day objects magic and assigning them to meanings they would not typically have. The magical-realism of simplicity in life seems to be the blueprint for Fagan's poetry. She uses every day objects and pop culture references, to make her meaning fantastical but still very accessible to the reader. Fagan has a very personal tone to her pieces, and some poems go off on small (usually humorous) tangents. However steam of conscious, Fagan uses spacing and punctuation to break up the poem and have it read at the speed and style suiting the particular piece. The poem "Great Poets Steal" deals with the face that imagery is out there for all, and if two poets stumble across the same image and idea, they will each attempt to incorporate it into their work first. It was amusing as it is true to life and presented with a unique twist. Her lists of Haiku's near the end work together, and are further examples of her integration of modern society with an old form of poem.
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