Poetry. A first book of poetry from Brooklyn's Jessica Greenbaum, winner of a Discovery/The Nation prize and P.E.N.'s New Writer award. A sinewy, vividly intelligent humanity gives to this collection its memorable voice. In one sense, Jessica Greenbaum's poems are incisively local - that Brooklyn landscape out of Whitman and Hart Crane. In another sense, however, they tell of the larger sadness and recognitions of our century. They 'design their world through love' and scrupulous observation - George Steiner.
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Greenbaum inhabits a Brooklyn that is somehow both urban and earthy, a metropolis of car trouble, plumbers/ and broken typewriters. Yet in the midst of this Sisyphean world, she discovers the double life/ Within us, and everything. Sooty old Brooklyn yields up beauty in the form of rose/ and coffee shops and the grocer arranging/ his pyramid of grapefruits. The borough!s cherry trees are heavy with pink clusters dense as mattress stuffing. Even the wind is composed in green/ Van Gogh-like swirls. Again and again, Greenbaum makes poetry by engaging contraries, marrying/ acceptance and argument. She concludes this highly readable first book with five confessional poems about birth and miscarriage, path and obstacle, everything that makes this earth the right place to live, as long as we keep inventing it. Recommended for all larger poetry collections."Daniel L. Guillory, Millikin Univ., Decatur, IL
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A, B, C, D, E
After Reading John Koethe's Poem, 'in The Park'
After Rereading 'notes Of A Native Son'
Back At The Cemetery
'blown-away-roof'
A Box Of Clementines In The Maternity Ward
Brooklyn Aubade
'civilization Has A Price.'
Conversation About Life, After Life
The Don Quixote Jewelry Box
Driving Friday Night
Early Morning Of An Argument, In Spring, About When To Have Children
Grieving, I Came To Prospect Park Early In The Morning
Outside La Roque-gageac
The Sisyphus Report
Three Poems
Tolstoy's Snowball
Under The Spell Of Miscarriage
Vassar's Orange Living Room
We Walked Out Of The Hospital
We Want The Hurricane
With Gulliver In Brooklyn
The Yellow Star That Goes With Me
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
A, B, C, D, E
After Reading John Koethe's Poem, 'in The Park'
After Rereading 'notes Of A Native Son'
Back At The Cemetery
'blown-away-roof'
A Box Of Clementines In The Maternity Ward
Brooklyn Aubade
'civilization Has A Price.'
Conversation About Life, After Life
The Don Quixote Jewelry Box
Driving Friday Night
Early Morning Of An Argument, In Spring, About When To Have Children
Grieving, I Came To Prospect Park Early In The Morning
Outside La Roque-gageac
The Sisyphus Report
Three Poems
Tolstoy's Snowball
Under The Spell Of Miscarriage
Vassar's Orange Living Room
We Walked Out Of The Hospital
We Want The Hurricane
With Gulliver In Brooklyn
The Yellow Star That Goes With Me
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
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This is, quite simply, a superb and sublime book. The poems are subtle and wry, heartfelt and real. There's been more hype for less-gifted poets, but Jessica Greenbaum's is not a noisy talent. Her language works patiently and dilligently until each poem acquires the kind of blush you expect from a rich wine. A very satisfying book.
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- In the Park (Look Once, Look Again Science Series) by David M. Schwartz in Back Matter
- The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis by Jose Saramago in Front Matter
- Don Quixote (Modern Library Classics) by Miguel de Cervantes in Back Matter
- A Parade of Hands by James Hoch in Front Matter
- Waiting for Birdy: A Year of Frantic Tedium, Neurotic Angst, and the Wild Magic of Growing a Family by Catherine Newman in Back Matter
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