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Deliciously pessimistic poetry,
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This review is from: Creep to Death (Hardcover)
Joseph Payne Brennan is one of the best kept secrets of 20th century poetry, up there with the greats of modern verse's nay-sayers--Leopardi, Trakl, Larkin. This is a collection that exudes pure pain from the first line to the last, and one would be hard pressed to find a poet who can match the ethereal chokehold of doom Brennan manages to lay on the reader in a single poem. His determination to communicate the agony and ennui of existence is unremitting and boy, does he succeed. These poems are not merely self pitying cries of pain: they have real substance and a vision of the world that is disarmingly honest to say the least. His remorseless existential statements are not pretentious at all and have the subtlety of a sickly snake sliding up for the final diseased bite:
"Down you go, a tag on your toe flat on your back in a canvas sack you're bound to fit in our bulldozed pit smug by night's eternal shore . . .you and twenty-seven more. a very few years, with no trace of tears WE'LL DIG YOU UP AND BURN YOUR BONES! . . .mister anonymous nobody jones. . ." This sort of nursery rhyme sing-song dementia is used to maximum effect. Brennan is a poet who has been shoved into a closet of undeserved obscurity, and it is time all lovers of the genuinely downcast and doomy in poetry open the damn door.
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