From Library Journal
Poetry tends to frustrate and confuse the masses. At times the masses are to blame, at times the poet?as is the case here. Attempting to disguise broken meter, disjointed syntax, and lifeless diction behind the facade of art, these poems fail to provide a shared experience between the speaker and the reader, who ends up feeling alienated. Glazer seems to be promoting shock value for its own sake without relying on the true elements of tone, voice, and rhythm. As a result, her poems feel like writing-workshop exercises: "He can't restore/ the picture the man/ mad at/ who knows what/ shot holes in." The poem "Violence in Wings" stands as the sole bright spot in the collection. Not recommended.?Tim Gavin, Episcopal Acad., Merion, Pa.
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Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
A work of desperate, beautiful invention: vision and fierce revision. -- Carole Maso
All That In The Voice I Have Adopted For This Lie
And Sand Dollars
And Sand Dollars
Blue Paint Causes Stains In Laboratory Rats
Boar Baroque
A Convoluted Red Wad Of Concentric Circles Stuck On Column
Corkscrew: A Short History Of A Short Relationship
Detritus
Dowsers' Convention, Mciver State Park
Floating Mangers
Fruit Flies To The Too Ripe Fruit
Green
Her Eyes
In Concert
In The Cleaning Room
It Is Hrd To Look At What We Came To Think We'd Come To See
Jungle
Jungle Crabs Near Nicaragua
Letting The Glue Dry
Love Poem
Morning Glory
My
Not This
Ode To The Room Of The Dead Fish & To The Dead Fish
Pomegranate
Pueblo
The Purpose Of Design Is To Make The Whole Greater
Real Life #2: Scraps
Real Life #4: Playground
Real Life #7: Summer
Science
Seizing The Storm
Sequence, Costa Rica
Star-spangled
Summer & Her Painted Flowers
Tourist
Variations On A Fixed Target
A Violence In Wings
Weather
Without Title
You
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
Each successive reading brings rewards . . . in poem after excellent poem, Glazer turns language upon itself, breaking and recombining, harrowing and planting, and the result is a collection of tightly focused poetry that is breath-taking in scope. -- Pleides, 19:1
The poems in this extraordinary collection are (like its title) sinuos, refractory, highly structured, yet in a way, implosive too, their asymmetric blocks holding in balances always about to give way... -- Boston Review Oct/Nov 98
[Glazer has] a capacity for seeing so profoundly accurate one feels the ghost of [Elizabeth] Bishop hovering, and an ear so finely tuned it cannot but register all the finest, filamentary truths the eye discerns and translate them for us into idea, gesture, turn of mind. It is an extraordinary experience to be the reader of this ethically awake, brilliantly stoical-and incidentally very sexy-book." -- JOrie Graham
All That In The Voice I Have Adopted For This Lie
And Sand Dollars
And Sand Dollars
Blue Paint Causes Stains In Laboratory Rats
Boar Baroque
A Convoluted Red Wad Of Concentric Circles Stuck On Column
Corkscrew: A Short History Of A Short Relationship
Detritus
Dowsers' Convention, Mciver State Park
Floating Mangers
Fruit Flies To The Too Ripe Fruit
Green
Her Eyes
In Concert
In The Cleaning Room
It Is Hrd To Look At What We Came To Think We'd Come To See
Jungle
Jungle Crabs Near Nicaragua
Letting The Glue Dry
Love Poem
Morning Glory
My
Not This
Ode To The Room Of The Dead Fish & To The Dead Fish
Pomegranate
Pueblo
The Purpose Of Design Is To Make The Whole Greater
Real Life #2: Scraps
Real Life #4: Playground
Real Life #7: Summer
Science
Seizing The Storm
Sequence, Costa Rica
Star-spangled
Summer & Her Painted Flowers
Tourist
Variations On A Fixed Target
A Violence In Wings
Weather
Without Title
You
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
Each successive reading brings rewards . . . in poem after excellent poem, Glazer turns language upon itself, breaking and recombining, harrowing and planting, and the result is a collection of tightly focused poetry that is breath-taking in scope. -- Pleides, 19:1
The poems in this extraordinary collection are (like its title) sinuos, refractory, highly structured, yet in a way, implosive too, their asymmetric blocks holding in balances always about to give way... -- Boston Review Oct/Nov 98
[Glazer has] a capacity for seeing so profoundly accurate one feels the ghost of [Elizabeth] Bishop hovering, and an ear so finely tuned it cannot but register all the finest, filamentary truths the eye discerns and translate them for us into idea, gesture, turn of mind. It is an extraordinary experience to be the reader of this ethically awake, brilliantly stoical-and incidentally very sexy-book." -- JOrie Graham
