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Wit and Intelligence from a young poet,
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This review is from: The Grammar of Nails (Paperback)
I recognized this poet from her years of publishing in journals like Grand Street and The Paris Review. But this was the first time I've read a larger sample of her work. She's a truly gifted poet, with a remarkable intelligence and precision of language, as well as a crafty sense of humor. She weaves mythology in among contemporary tales and issues, managing somehow to balance irony and lyricism. From the bible to classicism to pop culture, she's able to draw from an impressive catalog of texts without ever losing an easy, organic quality to her poems. She even manages in one poem to use Mary Poppins as the hysterically impossible model of parenthood. I can't recommend this collection enough to other poets out there, and I'm eagerly awaiting her next work.
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The Grammar of Nails by Amy Scattergood (Paperback - January 1, 2001)
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