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What do I care, or Big in Ljubljana,
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This review is from: Woods and Chalices (Hardcover)
We have this English word dotty. 'The boy scrubs the kitchen and crushes/the dot to mom' or from Row (2006) 'Is god dotted?' Though actually that has a certain ring to it. The first 10 pages are mostly stodgy sonnnets; even the sytax is dull, the verb-forms monotonous. As to meaning, he gives a whole new meaning to the word 'meaning'. Then things perk up for a couple pages before darkness descends again; 'sombrer', the French would call it. Would a chronology help? One gets the feeling books like this and the earlier Row are being pumped out like product, to ride a wave; but the new Vasco Popa he's not - obscurity's moved on a ways since then. When the NY Schoolers write this way you feel they're revealing themselves; their pose is (at least sometimes) genuine - where, though, is Salamun? Maybe he's funnier in Slovenian. Maybe Gertrude Stein is, too |
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Woods and Chalices by Toma? ?alamun (Hardcover - April 14, 2008)
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