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People who never buy books of poetry will find a compelling reason to buy this one: at its center is a long poem constructed out of the e-mail detritus of 9/11, when citizens and survivors from all over the world poured their grief onto global listservs, as well as of news sound bites, bits of trauma-related classroom exercises, profiles of bin Laden and others, as well as elegies for the victims. Along with Michael Gottlieb's "The Dust," the poem, titled "Love Which Took Its Symmetry for Granted" is one of the few versifications of the tragedy and its aftermath that is genuinely affecting, switching among its many voices and discourses cleanly (if not seamlessly), and giving a sense of the poet's own attempts to come to terms with what has happened. The rest of the book is perfectly good, moving among familiar modes of high-low juxtaposition, childhood remembrance, workday challenge and wry pop cultural exploration with ease. A funny, touching prose poem about Duhamel's relationship with the poet Nick Carbó closes things out: "Duhamel has essentially erased all other women in Carbó's life but herself." A similar sense of depth dipped in whimsy pervades throughout; it's what saves Duhamel's elegiac bricolage from mawkishness. (Apr.)
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Adult/High School-Duhamel uses familiar language and pop-culture references in unfamiliar ways. Her poems are accessible without being complacent, challenging without being frustratingly inscrutable to those just beginning to delve into contemporary poetry. She is the perfect poet to introduce to YAs; Two and Two is full of riches and as good a place as any to start. Teens will get their feet wet in its smart, more playful poems-one composed of bad English subtitles from Hong Kong films. Another is an alliterative celebration of American slang, and yet another imagines what Noah's and Joan of Arc's life together might have been like, after revealing that 20 percent of Americans believe that they were married. As the book deepens, readers will see that an artful collage of bits and pieces from e-mails, journals, and news items can produce a poem of astonishing power. They will find that a poem in which each line begins with "I feel" is not necessarily a selfish, I-centric poem-that someone writing "I feel" over and over enables readers to feel more and examine what they feel, too. Duhamel's poetry, simply put, will make teens not only want to read poetry, but to write it as well.-Emily Lloyd, Stephen J. Betze Library, Georgetown, DE
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People who never buy books of poetry will find a compelling reason to buy this one: at its center is a long poem constructed out of the e-mail detritus of 9/11, when citizens and survivors from all over the world poured their grief onto global listservs, as well as of news sound bites, bits of trauma-related classroom exercises, profiles of bin Laden and others, as well as elegies for the victims. Along with Michael Gottlieb's "The Dust," the poem, titled "Love Which Took Its Symmetry for Granted" is one of the few versifications of the tragedy and its aftermath that is genuinely affecting, switching among its many voices and discourses cleanly (if not seamlessly), and giving a sense of the poet's own attempts to come to terms with what has happened. The rest of the book is perfectly good, moving among familiar modes of high-low juxtaposition, childhood remembrance, workday challenge and wry pop cultural exploration with ease. A funny, touching prose poem about Duhamel's relationship with the poet Nick Carbó closes things out: "Duhamel has essentially erased all other women in Carbó's life but herself." A similar sense of depth dipped in whimsy pervades throughout; it's what saves Duhamel's elegiac bricolage from mawkishness. (Apr.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
From School Library Journal
Adult/High School-Duhamel uses familiar language and pop-culture references in unfamiliar ways. Her poems are accessible without being complacent, challenging without being frustratingly inscrutable to those just beginning to delve into contemporary poetry. She is the perfect poet to introduce to YAs; Two and Two is full of riches and as good a place as any to start. Teens will get their feet wet in its smart, more playful poems-one composed of bad English subtitles from Hong Kong films. Another is an alliterative celebration of American slang, and yet another imagines what Noah's and Joan of Arc's life together might have been like, after revealing that 20 percent of Americans believe that they were married. As the book deepens, readers will see that an artful collage of bits and pieces from e-mails, journals, and news items can produce a poem of astonishing power. They will find that a poem in which each line begins with "I feel" is not necessarily a selfish, I-centric poem-that someone writing "I feel" over and over enables readers to feel more and examine what they feel, too. Duhamel's poetry, simply put, will make teens not only want to read poetry, but to write it as well.-Emily Lloyd, Stephen J. Betze Library, Georgetown, DE
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