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5.0 out of 5 stars
immeasurable pleasure awaits the reader,
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This review is from: The Measure (Paperback)
No, poetry is not dead! It has only been sleeping sleeping for a while. The Measure's poems speak the universal language that poetry is meant to speak, but alas seems to consist so often of the wholly confessional of late...Not that Pitkins' poems don't carry the voice of personal experience, a voice which must, in a life well-lived, include loss, pain, disappointment. But these poems speak more loudly the voice of our human experience, through the lens of the natural world, the inanimate animated, birds singing biious tunes or portending doom, rock, water and flora precisely described as emotion, and as aspects of character unique to men...Pitkins' powerfully feminine voice rings clear, not quite the judge, but more the beneficent goddess, seeing all with calm, firm wisdom, and the reader feels both blessed and chastened.
5.0 out of 5 stars
more than a measure of pleasure,
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This review is from: The Measure (Paperback)
No title could be more perfect for these tightly crafted little poems, full of restraint yet brimming with meaning. Within them, words tense, turn, and bend to refract new light, and "strands of language cleave you." Those who love poetry will be disappointed only that there isn't more.The Measure
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The Measure by Jo Pitkin (Paperback - 2007)
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