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From Publishers Weekly
Ranging from the mundane to the ethereal, the themes of Brock-Broido's first collection are always interesting and sometimes startling. The poems can be roughly classified into three groups: those concerned with time, especially the conjunction of the past and the future; those influenced by things or places specifically American, poems that appear vaguely autobiographical; and those based on actual historical or contemporary events, usually involving, and often narrated by, a child. Some of the work's best moments occur in this latter category, where the poet writes with simplicity and clarity. In "Birdie Africa," a poem based on the fire-bombing of the MOVE cult's Philadelphia tenement in 1985, a young boy describes his love for his father: "But when I wind my arms around/ him, put my face into the dimmed scoop/ of his neck, he smells like good warm fire." Brock -Broido demonstrates an unusual ability to see things from the viewpoint of children, sensitively portraying their pain and confusion, but usually refraining from imposing upon them the mannered knowledge of the more sophisticated adult. In other poems, however, she takes the opposite tack, developing more mature themes with sometimes oblique references. By including sketchy explanations to several of her verses, Brock-Broido demystifies them a bit, but never reveals too much, leaving her poetry in a somewhat distanced realm. Overall, this is an absorbing volume, written with fine attention to word choice and rhythm, and at times able to achieve striking effects.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Brock-Broido's first collection of poems reveals a poet with a hunger for "Writing it all down so you would know/ Exactly what it is to trick oblivion." Her concerns include both public events and private experiences and perceptions of the world she lives in. Occasionally the more public poems seem merely topical. Thus, the insights in a poem like "Birdie Africa" are too easy; they go little beyond the revelations in a profile in People magazine (the source of an epigraph for another, more successful poem). But at her best, Brock-Broido's poems are quirky and graceful, resonant with "the autoerotic sounds of her American voice/ Getting it all down."Grace Bauer, Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Ranging from the mundane to the ethereal, the themes of Brock-Broido's first collection are always interesting and sometimes startling. The poems can be roughly classified into three groups: those concerned with time, especially the conjunction of the past and the future; those influenced by things or places specifically American, poems that appear vaguely autobiographical; and those based on actual historical or contemporary events, usually involving, and often narrated by, a child. Some of the work's best moments occur in this latter category, where the poet writes with simplicity and clarity. In "Birdie Africa," a poem based on the fire-bombing of the MOVE cult's Philadelphia tenement in 1985, a young boy describes his love for his father: "But when I wind my arms around/ him, put my face into the dimmed scoop/ of his neck, he smells like good warm fire." Brock -Broido demonstrates an unusual ability to see things from the viewpoint of children, sensitively portraying their pain and confusion, but usually refraining from imposing upon them the mannered knowledge of the more sophisticated adult. In other poems, however, she takes the opposite tack, developing more mature themes with sometimes oblique references. By including sketchy explanations to several of her verses, Brock-Broido demystifies them a bit, but never reveals too much, leaving her poetry in a somewhat distanced realm. Overall, this is an absorbing volume, written with fine attention to word choice and rhythm, and at times able to achieve striking effects.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Brock-Broido's first collection of poems reveals a poet with a hunger for "Writing it all down so you would know/ Exactly what it is to trick oblivion." Her concerns include both public events and private experiences and perceptions of the world she lives in. Occasionally the more public poems seem merely topical. Thus, the insights in a poem like "Birdie Africa" are too easy; they go little beyond the revelations in a profile in People magazine (the source of an epigraph for another, more successful poem). But at her best, Brock-Broido's poems are quirky and graceful, resonant with "the autoerotic sounds of her American voice/ Getting it all down."Grace Bauer, Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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