The Will - Softcover

Polk, Dora Beale

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0955656206 ISBN 13: 9780955656200

Verlag: Orlandon Press, 2008

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Polk has a startling ability to address vast themes in a straight-forward, heart-felt way, in poems that openly express her views without in any way imposing them. The reader is simply invited to contemplate. You are certainly not asked to swallow her opinions. You, too, have a Will and it is your responsibility to use it well. Polk does not need to convert you, for she is an example of that wondrous paradox: if you are sure of your beliefs, you can be open to difference and to constant re-evaluation. Polk's passion for ideas is matched by her love of language, of the sound as well as the meaning of words. Her Welsh roots give her an affinity with the sound-chiming of the Welsh cynghanedd, the easy use of assonance, alliteration and internal rhyming ('Word Harmonies'), which resonates throughout this collection. It is delicately subtle: 'Buds spill their petals across the/lawn before our very eyes, lapping and/dissolving into hips and haws.' (Lateland). And her use of rhythm is extraordinary: in Grass, you can just see the prairie grasses moving in the wind. Her wry and rueful humour, which portrays a lover as a fridge 'full of tacky leftovers' or as a 'damp,unlighted freeway', shines forth. 'The Will' is a legacy to cherish, a rich fund of images, sensations and ideas that pulse with immediacy and yet will endure. --Suzy Ceulan Hughes

Reseña del editor

This book is a collection of Polk's life's work as a poet. These are poems about time and life, in all senses. There are poems about personal experience: the break-up of relationships, the strains of daily living, the experience of aging. Poems about the passage of time and the nature of consciousness, about history, politics and memory. The variety of themes is expressed in an equally wide range of forms, including narrative, humour and philosophy. This is a deeply thoughtful poet celebrating over a long lifetime her freedom to write with no care to fashion or trend, revelling in the power and right of poetry to examine anything and everything. Particularly key to Polk's work is her belief in the vital importance of intention and choice, that at the heart of our lives is will.

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• Verlag: Orlandon Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0955656206
• ISBN 13: 9780955656200
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 143