Amazon.com Review
This collection actually consists of three serial poems, extended raps and riffs which Joseph Torra weaves together in terms of themes and images. Torra is a formally innovative writer, whose work Martha Collins calls "quirky, yet always emotionally grounded." Especially resonant is "Paintings," the middle of these serial poems, chock full of lines that speak to the fascination and isolation of modern life: "Abandonment whirls through a room in cold circles. The phone next to a stack of unopened mail has yet to ring." This is good work about these times, well worth your attention.
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Above Bird Chirp
Aerial Viewed Deserted
After The Revolution
Alley
Along A Nightwatch
Amusement Park Ride
Armed Guards Meet
Between A Corrosive State And A Disappearing Soul
A Black Limousine
The Bodies
Candidly Two Men
Conifer Ear Diseases
Determined Winds Pass
Eat Your Vegetables
Edward Extract
'even The Compass Needle Trembles.'
Experiment
Eye-seed
Flashbulbs Undercut
Floating These Currents
From Depths Stones
The Head
Here Set Motion
Horse And Rider
Humidity Ivory Coast
Indifference, Objects, And Time
Intersections Trickiest To
Into A Glass
Is It The Head Of A Water Buffalo Or A Ceremonial Headdress? Torch
Jackson Livestock
Landscape (2)
Landscape (3)
A Letter
Livingstone Metalwork
Med To Mum
Metamorphic New Jersey
Mountain
The Nest, Or The (w)hole Which Is The Center
Nobody Knows Fear
Ode To Pay
Ovid Plastering
Pay To Pol
Peking Probability
Poverty Is Overrated
Proboscidea Rubber
Rage Warehouse, Ire Proof
A Red Presence Fades To Cold Gray-to-white. An Old Unkempt Elm
Rise Popular Hysterics
A River Of
The Road To The City
Row Upon Row
Rubens Somalia
Satiated Rest Terrestrial
Say It Will
Self-portrait With A Loaf Of Bread
She Points To The Sun. A Flame-shale Yields. Shadow And Animal
Silence Havoc Arouse
Sonar Tax Law
Specifics
Taylor Utah
These Tracks We
They'll Lift 'em
To Explore Changes
An Untold Story Of Epic Dimensions
Utilitarianism Zwingli
What Surrendered Shackled
Where There A
The Worm Will Turn
Years Pass Without
You Think You've
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
Aerial Viewed Deserted
After The Revolution
Alley
Along A Nightwatch
Amusement Park Ride
Armed Guards Meet
Between A Corrosive State And A Disappearing Soul
A Black Limousine
The Bodies
Candidly Two Men
Conifer Ear Diseases
Determined Winds Pass
Eat Your Vegetables
Edward Extract
'even The Compass Needle Trembles.'
Experiment
Eye-seed
Flashbulbs Undercut
Floating These Currents
From Depths Stones
The Head
Here Set Motion
Horse And Rider
Humidity Ivory Coast
Indifference, Objects, And Time
Intersections Trickiest To
Into A Glass
Is It The Head Of A Water Buffalo Or A Ceremonial Headdress? Torch
Jackson Livestock
Landscape (2)
Landscape (3)
A Letter
Livingstone Metalwork
Med To Mum
Metamorphic New Jersey
Mountain
The Nest, Or The (w)hole Which Is The Center
Nobody Knows Fear
Ode To Pay
Ovid Plastering
Pay To Pol
Peking Probability
Poverty Is Overrated
Proboscidea Rubber
Rage Warehouse, Ire Proof
A Red Presence Fades To Cold Gray-to-white. An Old Unkempt Elm
Rise Popular Hysterics
A River Of
The Road To The City
Row Upon Row
Rubens Somalia
Satiated Rest Terrestrial
Say It Will
Self-portrait With A Loaf Of Bread
She Points To The Sun. A Flame-shale Yields. Shadow And Animal
Silence Havoc Arouse
Sonar Tax Law
Specifics
Taylor Utah
These Tracks We
They'll Lift 'em
To Explore Changes
An Untold Story Of Epic Dimensions
Utilitarianism Zwingli
What Surrendered Shackled
Where There A
The Worm Will Turn
Years Pass Without
You Think You've
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
