Ampersand Revisited (National Poetry) - Softcover

Berry, Simeon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1934200921 ISBN 13: 9781934200926

Verlag: FENCE BOOKS, 2015

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-Simeon Berry is an alchemist. He unlatches memory from time; transforms the cold silence of observation into flashing thought. Here, boxed moments are packed and unpacked, shuffled and re-inhabited. Berry revisits his personal history with both inscription and divination, in an attempt to bring his understanding into the present tense. In Ampersand Revisited, the blueprints of the past are still being drawn, and time is no longer obligated to keep its promise of inflexibility.-
--Richard Siken
-In Ampersand Revisited, Simeon Berry offers up a poetic bildungsroman of dazzling brio and brash inventiveness, a worthy successor to some of the great contemporary efforts in this mode: one hears echoes, among others, of Lowell's Life Studies, Hejinian's My Life and Brainard's I Remember. Like these works, it is a work of formal risk-taking, of pathos alternating with wry humor, and, ultimately, of self-regard transfiguring to a hard-won self-awareness. Debut collections as accomplished at this are a very rare thing indeed.-
--David Wojahn

"Simeon Berry is an alchemist. He unlatches memory from time; transforms the cold silence of observation into flashing thought. Here, boxed moments are packed and unpacked, shuffled and re-inhabited. Berry revisits his personal history with both inscription and divination, in an attempt to bring his understanding into the present tense. In Ampersand Revisited, the blueprints of the past are still being drawn, and time is no longer obligated to keep its promise of inflexibility."

--Richard Siken

"In Ampersand Revisited, Simeon Berry offers up a poetic bildungsroman of dazzling brio and brash inventiveness, a worthy successor to some of the great contemporary efforts in this mode: one hears echoes, among others, of Lowell's Life Studies, Hejinian's My Life and Brainard's I Remember. Like these works, it is a work of formal risk-taking, of pathos alternating with wry humor, and, ultimately, of self-regard transfiguring to a hard-won self-awareness. Debut collections as accomplished at this are a very rare thing indeed."

--David Wojahn

Reseña del editor

Berry's Ampersand Revisted is a lurid, lyrical trio of open prose poems marking up the blueprint of familial myth-making.

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• Verlag: FENCE BOOKS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1934200921
• ISBN 13: 9781934200926
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 96