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5.0 out of 5 stars
Beautifully Wrought,
This review is from: West Pullman (Bordighera Poetry Prize) (Paperback)
In West Pullman, Guinzio has written a marvelous book of poems intimately tied to a specific place (the neighborhood of West Pullman, Chicago's south side) yet broadening to include a series of poems on Pacific island birds. The glue that binds the poems together is that they all ask the universal question: "What is it / to be in the world?" Guinzio doesn't provide any easy answers. In fact, these poems are as much about listening as they are about answering that question. One poem implores, "Tell / your story, the great story of one / and many, composed of an imperfect / moment of silence." We are all ultimately alone in this world, but these poems offer solace in the fact that the poet is listening and recording.
Guinzio's poems are embedded with the intricate, daily details of our lives, yet they rise to a lyric pitch that is at once beautiful and intense and built on "words that have become / like breath." -- A splendid debut, with more to come in the future, I hope. |
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West Pullman (Bordighera Poetry Prize) by Carolyn Guinzio (Paperback - January 1, 2005)
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