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Norman Ball on "Unexpected Light",
This review is from: Unexpected Light (Paperback)
C. E. Chaffin commences his book with a rather direct manifesto: "I want to tell the truth / I want to tell it straight." Fair enough. The hidden inference is that he's long since tired of mind play for mind play's sake. This an earnest bid for unfiltered communion, intelligent poetry in the very best sense. Clean and spare, absent turgid image, these poems don't confound or perplex. Frankly they're too clever for that.
This is a large collection, spanning ten years, 150 pages and myriad styles and life periods. There are even sonnets for more formalist tastes. There is no narrative arc in the post-modern sense unless of course the mere passage of one life is permitted claim to arc status. Aristotle's first element of tragedy is plot followed immediately by character. Here we have plot and character in abundance as the poet ruminates various plot twists over a period of years: his losses, his illnesses, his gods and his love. The voice is multifarious as one would expect across a decade of life's episodes yet authentically whole. This collection is a harrowing, remarkable journey distilled though a keen expressive mind. I can't recommend it more highly. --Norman Ball |
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Unexpected Light by C. E. Chaffin (Paperback - March 1, 2009)
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