Friction [Paperback]

Claire Bateman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 1998

Selected by Naomi Shihab Nye as the sixth winner of the Eighth Mountain Poetry Prize.

Product Details

• Paperback: 140 pages
• Publisher: The Eighth Mountain Press (December 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0933377487
• ISBN-13: 978-0933377486
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,686,422 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A truly amazing collection, December 16, 2000

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This review is from: Friction (Paperback)

Drawing on a wealth of knowledge--celestial, biological, historical, literary--and beautifully written, all of the poems in this book are worth reading and rereading. The range of subject matter is breathtaking, from van Leeuwenhoek and his microscope to Frank Capra's films to human prehistory; and the threads that bind the images together are at once original and familiar in the way that truly great writers make you see something from such an unfamiliar but valid perspective that life, briefly, comes into focus. Moreover, the language of the poems is simultaneously natural, evocative, and fresh, covering a wide spectrum of styles and emotions, from exquisitely detailed free verse to eloquent Victorian to the narrative drive of the central poem, "Damage Assessment." In short, these poems have everything. It's the first book of poetry I've ever read cover to cover. Read it, and you will forever rejoice. Besides, who could resist a series of poems on "the intimate recollections of Frankenstein's creature"?