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A Wondrous Place to Visit,
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This review is from: Creature (Salt Modern Poets S.) (Paperback)
In one of her appearances on Oprah, Toni Morrison likened reading a book to visiting a new country. Reading Jerry Harp's first volume through from beginning to end is like visiting a place where we soon find outselves intrigued by hauntingly beautiful poems with innumerable allusions and references to a life given us in fragments that yet adds up to a whole greater than the sum of its parts. The character of the "Creature" in these poems is itself a brilliant and intriguing projection of the poet himself who takes us through both external and internal experiences. There is a nice mixture in these poems between the sacred and the profane as well as between what might be called a surrealistic world and an example of magical realism. These poems grow on you. And at times they are quietly but tellingly "activist," as is the case with "The Creature Meets the Executioner," which must be read as it simply defies paraphrase. This is a marvelous book of poems. I think it will eventually be a classic. |
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Creature (Salt Modern Poets S.) by Jerry Harp (Paperback - September 1, 2003)
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