Requiem for the Tree Fort I Set on Fire
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| Rating | : | 4.11 (915 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1941058523 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 132 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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Stephens, Alcohol Poems, Green Dreams, The Brooklyn Book of the Dead "These poems celebrate the broken things around us until they glisten as torches to light our way ."-Ravi Shankar, Pushcart Prize winning poet and Founding Editor of Drunken Boat "I cannot think of another series of poems that brings the gorgeous generous but also fragile and risky world of the ocean so forcefully to life. " -Jacqueline Bishop, Fauna, Snapshots from Istanbul, The Gymnast and Other Positions . With these poems Tim Tomlinson forages and forges a confrontation with the sublime. "Tim Tomlinson writes poetry with character and characters, with
These poems--which range from suburban Long Island and the barstools of New Orleans to rural Thailand and the reef bottoms of the Philippines--remind us that places can be fled, but the impact of experience remains. You can move from city to city, but escape from one place doesn't solve old problems, it sounds new alarms. Requiem for the Tree Fort I Set on Fire is a coming to terms with a scorched earth policy toward the past. It bears witness to the struggle, perhaps the futility, of traveling the world to find the self.
People who stay away from poetry often expect they will People who stay away from poetry often expect they will find symbolic, hidden meaning, esoteric aerie references that have nothing at all to do with real life. This book is so completely the opposite of that. Thee poems are on fire. They describe real life events in language that is startling and real not al all 'poetic' in the fake pseudo elevated literary sense, but precise and spare and sharp as a cutting tool. I don't know who to compare