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4.0 out of 5 stars
Comical poems about gap between hopes and reality,
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This review is from: The Commandrine and Other Poems (Paperback)
The title poem is a 15-page verse play of nine scenes that is like a comical Moby Dick with the nonsensical, yet evocative, repartee of a Samuel Beckett play. The source of McSweeney's poems is a comic energy and skewed eye. The brief poem "Bugs Bunny, Or, The Mirror That Held a Little Camera," beings, "I'm rundown. I've got a sunburn. These ears are my liability but they hold a lot...." Even when the comic style abates at times when a somber subject is raised, the language remains sharp and inventive, as in "Youth Image" where the poet writes, "One bus and then another passed with unresolving traffic of weird angles, logos,/a world that wouldn't math up...."
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The Commandrine and Other Poems by Joyelle McSweeney (Paperback - November 1, 2004)
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