Written as a notebook, My Secret Boat is a collage of stories, poems, dreams, and sketches. Among Burkard's subjects are childhood, the sea, family, alcoholism, love.
We follow the narrator on a journey as he explores the images, characters, and incidents from his past. Identities merge and even become contrary.
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Burkard's ( Fictions from the Self ) work is an acquired taste. For those who wish a direct encounter with an elusive medium, his seventh book--particularly its prose poems--may well offer a transcendent experience. The author approaches and invokes language as a sensory thing before it is a source of knowledge; best appreciated in a state of primal, sentient innocence, his words refresh and transform the possibilities of pure perception, while avoiding language's usual obligation to inform. Burkard's carefully reduced stock of images is powerful: the sea, a lantern, snow, rain and ghosts figure in a fragmentary dream that recurs over the course of the volume as the narrator plies a pen ("my secret boat") to move through states of being, address sundry characters and espystet elements of plot. Claiming to learn most when seeking least, "standing / in an idea" or losing himself in what lies beyond himself, the speaker lends a voluminous consciousness to us that sympathetic readers will not soon forget.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Burkard's carefully reduced stock of images is powerful: the sea, a laterns, snow, rain and ghosts. . . . The speaker lends a voluminous consciousness to us that sympathetic readers will not soon forget. (Publishers Weekly )
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3.0 out of 5 stars
poems and prose--okay read,
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This review is from: My Secret Boat: A Notebook of Prose and Poems (Paperback)
"Bobby Enchantment" from burkard's MY SECRET BOAT goes very well with this poem by 12-year-old Max Mandelsohn:
Ode to Marbles I love the sound of marbles scattered on the worn wooden floor, like children running away in a game of hide-and-seek. I love the sight of white marbles, blue marbles, green marbles, black, new marbles, old marbles, iridescent marbles, and glass-ribboned swirls, daning round and round. I love the feel of marbles, cool, smooth, rolling freely in my palm, like smooth-sided stars that light up the worn world.
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A Friend in the Dark,
By D. Munro (Grand Rapids, MI) - See all my reviews
This review is from: My Secret Boat: A Notebook of Prose and Poems (Paperback)
I don't know how to explain it, but My Secret Boat is like a friend in the scary dark.
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