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Brooklyn shout-out for Alexandra van de Kamp,
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This review is from: The Park of Upside-Down Chairs (Paperback)
In this, her brilliant debut collection, Alexandra van de Kamp argues that to love is to "let things fall through us," to keep a steadfast dedication to the physical world with all its beauty and pain. I can think of no better proof of love than these poems, and this poet's astonishing genius for metaphor, in which, as we read, our precious world--its clouds and lemons, breasts and saints, spoons and smoke and abandoned chairs--falls through us, changing, as it falls, into aspects of ourselves. This is the work of a magician; in other words, the work of a true poet. - Janet Kaplan
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Praise by poet Laurie Blauner,
This review is from: The Park of Upside-Down Chairs (Paperback)
"Can we discover ourselves and the meaning of our lives in forgotten objects in this `thick, viscous world'? Yes, Alexandra van de Kamp says in her lovely first full-length book. The details define us, `there are days when the objects/ we think love us, tell us what we really are.' Or we find ourselves juxtaposed against details like lemons, a fountain, mailboxes, a fan, rugs, photographs, and, quite often, paintings. All inform us about our true selves and how we fit into this world. This delightful book points out the possibilities and imagines the myriad of lives that could have been ours. It's a book that makes us reflect on what our better selves have left behind. And it's Alexandra who finds them."--Laurie Blauner, author of Wrong and Infinite Kindness
[from the rear cover of _The Park of Upside-Down Chairs_]
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Beautiful Poems, Lyrical Voice,
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This review is from: The Park of Upside-Down Chairs (Paperback)
Alexandra van de Kamp's poetry takes the ordinary and translates it to the extraordinary - from her descriptions of a rainy day to her gorgeous interpretation of life in Juxtapositions...her sentences flow magically and her imagery is captivating.
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