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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A Poet devoted to the world of the word,
By J Gallaher (Austin, Texas) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Killing seasons (Paperback)
Cokinos, active in political and environmental issues, has written a book that is both alive to the world around us, as well as the world of the poems themselves. The subjects of these poems range from a boy learning the hard lessons of time and distance with his father's short wave radio in "Short-Wave", to the brutality of personal and geoplotical conflicts in "Killing Seasons". But what these poems keep returning to, in their strong clear language, is the wonder of seeing, figured mostly as the birds Cokinos loves:"The vireos, kinglets, flycatchers and crows, the nuthatches, woodpeckers and swallows, the towhees and tanagers-- all gathering, all calling" It is this calling, this gathering that calls us together as people, that calls us to these poems, again and again. As Cokinos states, in "This": "tell me all you've seen,/ and I will tell you this." |
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Killing seasons by Christopher Cokinos (Paperback - 1993)
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