Poetry. Steve Orlen is the foremost contemporary embodiment of the poetic legacy of Randall Jarrell. Orlen's poems are more streetwise, but they have Jarrell's sad, wise eyes, the not-quite-jaded wonder, the vision of our folly which both sees and forgives. And the voice, in its alloy of the ruthless and the sentimental, is Jarrellian, a vehicle of such casual, confiding earnestness, one hardly notices the many chord changes, the masterful loosening and tightening of the narrative coils. Keen in their social observation, at times bluntly personal, full of slow builds and quick stabs, these poems are rich in what Jarrell called "the ordinariness of life; where people go; what people do; the ways of life." Their real subject is the education-in-progress of the soul, always a stranger, and the bemused, inquiring witness of narration itself.
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Beautifully articulated, often profound poems, invested with emotion that has been honestly and inevitably earned. -- Marlboro Review, Summer 2003
Keen in their social observation, full of slow builds and quick stabs, Orlen is the equal of anyone writing." -- Tony Hoagland
Keen in their social observation, full of slow builds and quick stabs, Orlen is the equal of anyone writing." -- Tony Hoagland
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Steve Orlen is the author of five previous collections of poetry, including This Particular Eternity (Ausable, 2001), The Bridge of Sighs and Kisses. He has received awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as the George Dillon Memorial Award from Poetry magazine. He teaches at the University of Arizona.
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Keen in their social observation, at times bluntly personal, full of slow builds and quick stabs, these poems are rich in what Randall Jarrell called "the ordinariness of life; what people do; where people go; the ways of life." Their real subject is the education-in-progress of the soul, always a stranger, and the bemused, inquiring witness of narration itself.-Tony Hoagland
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