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With a lovely, effective poem about elephants, a boat-shaped poem whereby "The Bonsai Master's Daughter Breaks Her Silence" and a "Canticle with Sea Worm" ("blessed be juice and raspberry vodka"), the Miracle Fruit of Aimee Nezhukumatathil's debut comes through in light bursts of clear sensuality and joy.
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Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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With a lovely, effective poem about elephants, a boat-shaped poem whereby ""The Bonsai Master's Daughter Breaks Her Silence"" and a ""Canticle with Sea Worm"" (""blessed be juice and raspberry vodka""), the Miracle Fruit of Aimee Nezhukumatathil's debut comes through in light bursts of clear sensuality and joy.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Publishers Weekly
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Publishers Weekly
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Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of three collections of poetry: LUCKY FISH (2011), MIRACLE FRUIT (2003), winner of the Tupelo Press Prize and the ForeWord Magazine Poetry Book of the Year Award, and AT THE DRIVE-IN VOLCANO (2007), winner of the Balcones Prize. Other awards for her writing include a fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts and the Pushcart Prize. She is associate professor of English at State University of New York-Fredonia.
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10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Finally! A miraculous debut!!,
By garyfem (baltimore, MD) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Miracle Fruit (Paperback)
Nezhukumatathil can blend humor and vulnerability and sharply wrought observations like no other young poet writing today. looking for pretense? jargon? name-dropping? convoluted lines to show how "deep" she is? sorry, buster, you won't find them here.I found this book unexpectedly moving and charming and dazzling all at once. To me, if I am haunted by lines while I am brushing my teeth days later and those lines force me to grab the book and savor those lines again, it is well worth the bang for your buck. POEMS THAT SIZZZLE: "Small Murders" "Betelgeuse" "Why I am Not Afraid of King Cobras" "Swear Words" "The Woman who Turned Down a Date with a Cherry Farmer" Her name is all over the lit magazines now and i've watched her success with much joy and pride: I own a copy of her hard to find chapbook! Hundreds of editors and fans cannot be wrong. Only the most jaded and jealous would begrduge this work's uncanny and honest miracle of bringing smiles to readers. Imagine that: a poet who can actually make people smile!
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
At Last: a witty and elegant read,
By craigT (Ann Arbor, MI) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Miracle Fruit (Paperback)
Simply put: one of the BEST new voices and books in recent memory. I surprised myself--how often I caught myself smiling. A rare feat these days in young poets' verse. Absolutely full of charm and a humble intelligence.
8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
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Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Miracle Fruit (Tupelo Press, 2003)
One of the fringe benefits of being a reviewer in the age of the Internet is that finding information on authors is much easier. A perusal of Aimee Nezhukumatathil's weblog shows us a woman who is (or comes across on the Internet, at least) funny, but in a quiet rather than a slapstick way; beautiful; shockingly intelligent, but with enough presence of mind to know when to dump the brain and rely on the heart, the gut, or the funny bone; thoughtful, observant; somewhat humble. It should not surprise many that her first book-length collection, Miracle Fruit, is a perfect mirror of these traits. It is also, in many places, unexpected; old ground gets fresh, surprising treatment. Even the hoary old love poem gets a new luster: "...I like to think of Orion-- not hunting at the moment, but nudging fools like me out of the way, saying not your turn, not like this. I ignore him, press on, until I come to that ruddy shoulder and find it's too big to even try to circle around. The way it pulses just a little makes me think of my own blood in my veins, how it flows and kisses each muscle only as long as I stay put upon this earth. And maybe he's right: scribbling notes on lovers' shoulders, necks, throats-- is not the way. But I love the trying, not the mess, the rugs and dust scattered. Only this sweet business of trying." ("Betelgeuse") The book is full of clever twists and turns, with a gentle, self-deprecating humor that casts the poems here in molds that lend themselves to the easiest of reading, that beguile the reader into letting them linger on the tongue long after the final word is spoken. This is fine work, some of the best poetry released in recent years that's come across my desk; mark the (easy-to-remember, certainly) name Aimee Nezhukumatathil, for if there is any justice in the poetic world, you will be seeing it a lot more in the years to come. A strong candidate for my top twenty-five reads of the year. **** ½
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