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Original Essays | November 9, 2009

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I don't believe in evil. It's a word I use, certainly, because words are shortcuts and we all take the short way round from time to time, but that's... Continue »
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The Book of Accident (Akron Series in Poetry)

by Beckian Fritz Goldberg

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ISBN13: 9781931968355
ISBN10: 1931968357
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In her latest collection of poems, The Book of Accident, Beckian Fritz Goldberg invites the reader into a shadowy atmosphere where her language prowls among strange images; hummingbirds become a "fistful of violet amphetamines" and desire gnaws away like a "live rat sewed up inside us." Reading The Book of Accident is like entering a graphic novel with missing panels, a noir world of queasy glints and feral adolescents, "a world where no one has to love you." Characters go by odd names: Torture Boy, Skin Girl, Lala Petite, Wolf Boy (his body "pale as the plucked end of light"). They are punk kids fending for themselves in an expressionistic version of those old stories "that began, Let's take the children out to the woods / and leave them." And on every page, there's Goldberg's hard-edged wit, with the speed and flash of a video game. These poems show mercy but give no ground. They make you feel heartbroken and frightened and exhilarated at the same time.
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Jena, November 23, 2006 (view all comments by Jena)
I didn't like this collection of poetry the first time I read it. But upon a second reading, I realized that the whole thing was lent a sort of extreme, satiric comic book feel by the characters' names, like Fire Boy, and a whole new appreciation was born. Now, it's become one of my favorite modern poetry collections.
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ISBN:
9781931968355
Author:
Goldberg, Beckian Fritz
Publisher:
University of Akron Press
Subject:
Single Author / American
Subject:
American - General
Edition Description:
Paperback
Series:
Akron Series in Poetry
Publication Date:
June 2006
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
90
Dimensions:
8.80x5.90x.30 in. .40 lbs.
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