Cultural Writing. Prose. These vivid meditations call us to enter the whirl of our desires. With wit and passion, Jeff Gundy investigates our deep roots of longing -- for God and the other. He offers an unforgettable ride -- Jean Janzen. The power of Jeff Gundy's RHAPSODY WITH DARK MATTER stems from a distinctive tension, where irony of the old sort -- with its attending terrors of Fate confronted -- is met with the wink (and the strength) of latter-day knowledge. Here are love poems, tracts on faith and doubt, paeans to the family memory, and yes, essays on Gospel Hour Radio, where the likes of Albert Einstein and John Wooden may coexist on the same sturdy line. This Midwetern rhapsody, Jeff Gundy, possesses and ancient lyric touch but also, delightfully, a sharp postmodern edge -- David Baker.
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This is a strong collection by a fine poet of the Midwest. Gundy treats love, sexuality, family, and our spiritual quest for meaning in the 21st century.
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Jeff Gundy was raised in central Illinois and studied at Goshen College and Indiana University. Since 1984 he has taught at Bluffton College in Ohio. He and his wife Marlyce and their three sons live in Bluffton, Ohio. He has won two Ohio Arts Council Poetry Fellowships. He is also a vocalist and guitarist. His previous books are INQUIRIES (Bottom Dog Press) and FLATLANDS (Cleveland State Unviersity).
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Rhapsodies, Rapture,
By "shevin" (Tiffin, OH United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Rhapsody with Dark Matter: Poems (Paperback)
"Rhapsody" describes the effect of this book as much as the technique. I think of the expressions of my students, hearing the poem `Driving With Rumi'; they were rapt with attention, appreciative of the rich music, the connectedness to the light and location of the words and the sensitivity to the humble place of the poem's moment connected to the endless place of the world the poem described.This is a volume that creates a beauty from the mundane in the same way that composers of liturgical music take the commonplace to find the sacred. Gundy finds this in family, culture, notes to old friends, his son's speech, the melodramas of the common uncommon people about him, and endless movement. Here is an intellect that is surprising, quirky, precise, appreciative, and observant both in the way of the scientist and the shaman. In one of many favorite poems here, the "Prairie Boy" contemplates a fresh landscape: "Where I live there are no mountains. Lack/is the father of beauty. Beauty is the father of the mountains./The mountains are the father of everything." This volume will transport and amaze you.
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