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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
If you're actually alive, then this is a book of poems you must read,
This review is from: The Violence (New Series #11) (Paperback)
Urgent, heartbreaking, and sometimes weirdly humorous, the poems in Ethan Paquin's The Violence seem at every moment in the process of undoing themselves, wobbling back and forth, precariously, between fits of lovelorn tenderness and incredible rage. The epitome of edgy, these poems are ever in a process of shredding and healing, "I bestow upon thee, with this ochre, the violence/A swatch for you and I." It's as if the very language the poems are made of can't (or won't) allow itself to come to terms in the world, the world of love and violence, of poetry and speech. Reading Paquin, I think of poets as diverse and rangy as John Keats, Antonin Artaud and Charles Olson. And while these poets have influenced many of the younger generation of poets writing today, it's Paquin's formal inventiveness (some might even say recklessness), as well as his command of things like tone, diction and image (not to mention, subject matters all too human) that set him apart from his peers. Truly a beautiful, redemptive and inspiring book.
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The Violence (New Series #11) by Ethan Paquin (Paperback - January 1, 2005)
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