Deborah Digges's third and best book of poems has been hailed by The New Yorker as "an outstanding collection, " and by Mark Doty as "so exhilarating that even its darkest notes shine with a strange joy." Her subjects range from the graffiti with which a street gang mourns a dead comrade to aples"three red, one golden, like a flower."
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Digges (Late in the Millennium) entwines ancient ritual with contemporary life in beautifully complex poems characterized by intricacy of syntax and richness of theme and idea. In "In-House Harvest," a poem about organ transplant, she envisions "...the arc of the stone tool/ thrown through history,/ delivered, shining, in the surgeon's hand." The masterful "Rock Scissors Paper," a sprung sestina, juxtaposes the thoughts and words of Freud, Marx and Darwin, along with words from the Bible, lyrics from children's songs and other sources. Digges writes a learned, often densely allusive verse, but her first-person voice gathers emotion when she turns to the intimate terrain of her loves, her memories and her own body. The poems near the end of the volume approach autobiography. Seven of the poems are illuminated by notes at the back of the book; helpful and absorbing in their own right, these references and explanations may help readers approach the other, unannotated works. All of the poems deserve-and amply reward-the reader's careful attention.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Akhmatova
Apples
Blue Willow
Broom
Chekhov's Darling
Christmas Rain
Five Smooth Stones
For The Lost Adolescent
Forty-two Years Of Dreams
Gypsy Moths
In-house Harvest
Late Summer
The Little Book Of Hand Shadows
London Zoo
Morning After A Blizzard
My Amaryllis
My Phantom Escort, The Milkweed
Nursing The Hamster
Rock, Scissors, Paper
Rough Music
Rune For The Parable Of Despair
Spring
The Story Of The Lighthouse
A Thousand Eclipses
Tombs Of The Muses
The Way Into Stone
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Apples
Blue Willow
Broom
Chekhov's Darling
Christmas Rain
Five Smooth Stones
For The Lost Adolescent
Forty-two Years Of Dreams
Gypsy Moths
In-house Harvest
Late Summer
The Little Book Of Hand Shadows
London Zoo
Morning After A Blizzard
My Amaryllis
My Phantom Escort, The Milkweed
Nursing The Hamster
Rock, Scissors, Paper
Rough Music
Rune For The Parable Of Despair
Spring
The Story Of The Lighthouse
A Thousand Eclipses
Tombs Of The Muses
The Way Into Stone
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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