Poetry. "A collection whose distinction rests in structure: Rhodes cleaves to no fixed perspective-this is a single speaker, eccentric, various, rather than a spokesperson. This fluidity persuades because it mimics the dilemma, imitates and preserves the child's helplessly reactive mind as it survives into, and is masked by, adulthood. These short poems, by turns savage, wry , mordantly witty, tender, stern, deluded, sane, read like a series of fragments, bits of mosaic; they duplicate on the page the sense of a past's being, piece by piece, recovered; they convey, devastatingly, the moment of a pattern's emerging: the little scenes and vignettes, the suspect tools of memory, cohere heart-stoppingly and absolutely into a narrative which fuses the damaged body to the divided heart. The results of the forbidden saturate these poems; reading them we are in the presence of harm. and, simultaneously, a wild, stubborn, unkillable life"-Louise Gluck.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Provocative and haunting lyric poems,
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This review is from: At the Gate (Provincetown Poets Series) (Paperback)
Martha Rhodes' first book, _At the Gate_, traces a lingering sense of menace from childhood through adulthood. While the parents seem a probable partial cause, the speaker identifies herself as a perpetrator as well. The rich ambiguity of these lyrics makes them inexplicably haunting. A strong book
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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haunting lyrics, as good as it gets,
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This review is from: At the Gate (Provincetown Poets Series) (Paperback)
This collection is as good as poetry gets -- this debut by emerging poet Martha Rhodes shouldn't be missed. The short, haunting lyrics relay the speaker's experiences from child-to-adulthood with clarity and complexity. The sequence ORBITS spins out from the mouth of a child speaker and moves toward the voice of the adult. The movement, from one poem to the next, is impressive. Rhodes is a virtuoso of the short lyric.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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These short lyrics are startling yet stunning.,
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This review is from: At the Gate (Provincetown Poets Series) (Paperback)
AT THE GATE by Martha Rhodes is a collection of short lyrics that deserves attention. These short lyrics are startling yet stunning, emotionally far-reaching and complicated but acccessible. Rhodes' music never misses; she has perfect pitch.
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