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Book News, Guests | December 14, 2009

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This is Just to Say... This is Just to Say...
by David Breeden
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This collection is a series of meditations based on a short poem by William Carlos Williams. Beginning with the trope of sin and redemption implicit in the Williams lyric, these poems examine the nature of action, myth, and language. What does the Garden... (read more)
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Fugitive Connections Fugitive Connections
by Inara Cedrins
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Inara Cedrins brings a painter's eye to her poetry. In this collection a still life blooms into narrative, narrative freezes for a moment into portrait and metaphor becomes a bowl of fruit waiting for the perfect light. As Cedrins says, "fences sprawl... (read more)
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Boki Boki
by Nitoo Das
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Boki.. A word that means nothing in English, but when you come to the poem that it's in - well, there it stands for a shouted syllable, a deconstruction of someone's name -- someone who went around / with scowling hair, // her long betel-spittled / lips... (read more)
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The Blueing Hours The Blueing Hours
by Albert Degenova
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The Blueing Hours moves from darkness to light - the reader moves from passion to doubt to the struggle to survive intact - in a brilliantly structured book which carries the reader to dawn. This isn't surprising, for here is a poet who does not want to... (read more)
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From Root to Flower From Root to Flower
by Paul Friedrich
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Paul Friedrich, a poet who is also a professor of anthropology, linguistics, and literature, begins this collection with Thoreau's claim that the "narrowness" of his experience confines him to talking about himself. But Friedrich's way of talking about... (read more)
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Harmony in Babel Harmony in Babel
by Paul Friedrich
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The poems and translations in Harmony in Babel entertain one paradox of life today. Paul Friedrich guides us through a Babel of words, and worlds of the imagination ranging from his translations from five languages(notably the Russian of his literary... (read more)
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Red Mud Red Mud
by Patricia Goodrich
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Red Mud is elemental: earth, water, blood. Its poems are both lyrical and direct, engaging the reader in a journey through terrain inhabited by distant men and cautious women, guided by the deer, mouse, bird, and fox. The poet, like the moose, "who... (read more)
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After Meng Jiao: Responses to the Tang Poet After Meng Jiao: Responses to the Tang Poet
by Christopher Kelen
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The poems in this book are not translations, rather they may be considered as variations on and responses to the poetry of Meng Jiao. Meng Jiao (751-814) was a poet of the late Tang. Unable to pass the examinations that would have given him a respectable... (read more)
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Eight Days in Lhasa Eight Days in Lhasa
by Christopher Kelen
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Eight Days in Lhasa is a new China hand's pilgrimage into some of Buddhism's holiest places. The ambivalence begins in the Shangrila of legend, or at least the town in the Tibetan corner of Yunnan which has renamed itself Xiangalila in Chinese. The... (read more)
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Spring Wind Brings the Fireworks Spring Wind Brings the Fireworks
by Christopher Kelen
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Xin Qiji (1140-1207) was a Song Dynasty poet who wrote in a range of genres and is famous for the more than six hundred ci poems he composed to one hundred and one different tunes. Kit (Christopher) Kelen and Agnes Vong have worked through around a... (read more)
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