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Poetry

Yale Series of Younger Poets #0072: Beginning with O

by Tricia, May 25, 2005 12:38 PM
Winner of the 72nd Yale Younger Award, this is a lyrical collection bursting with eroticism. In it Broumas recasts figures of Greek myth (Artemis, Demeter, Calypso, Circe, others) and rewrites modern fairy tales (Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Rapunzel) in a distinctly female context. It is not an old hag who keeps Rapunzel locked away in a tower, but an older lover:

Climb

through my hair, climb in

to me, love

hovers here like a mother's wish.

You might have been, though you're not

my mother. You let loose like hair, like static

her stilled wish, relentless

in me and constant as

tropical growth.

You can see that Broumas is not coy about her intentions. The whole book, pivoting around themes of immersion and rebirth, longing and fulfillment, is filled with explicit, Sapphic sexuality. This makes the book a political statement, but read carefully, it's much more than that. It's a book of lyric outburst, vigilantly attended to by Broumas's command of syntax, dense imagery, and musical phrase.




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