Something Bright, Then Holes
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| Rating | : | 4.60 (751 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1933368802 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 112 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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Jimmy V. said Something very bright indeed. I had loads of fun reading this, a good read. A great writer, a good teacher and I really enjoyed knowing that I took a class with a great writer who wrote an awesome book.
Maggie Nelson’s fourth collection of poems combines a wanderer’s attention to landscape with a deeply personal exploration of desire, heartbreak, resilience, accident, and flux. Something Bright, Then Holes explores the problem of losing then recovering sight and insight of feeling lost, then found, then lost again. The book’s three sections range widely, and include a long sequence of Niedecker-esque meditations written at the shore of a polluted urban canal, a harrowing long poem written at a friend’s hospital bedside, and a series of unsparing, crystalline lyrics honoring the conjoined forces of love and sorrow. The collection is a testament to Nelson’s steadfast commitment to chart the facts of feeling, whatever they are, and at whatever the cost.. Whatever the style, the poems are linked by Nelson’s singular poetic voice, as sly and exacting as it is raw
The sky is amazing/tonight, full of blurry swans. And though each section also has lines, stanzas, and lyric musicality, it's poetry only in a very loose sense. Over three sections, Nelson employs a consistent narrator, recognizable settings, recurring characters and a few structures closely resembling plots. A week ago/ it fell into a silo; yesterday/ it got electrocuted while peeing/ on a pole. But it's not fiction. Instead, it's a stunning collection of real-world stories shadowed by the netherworld of poetry: The hippie tells us his dog/ has terrible luck. All rights reserved. From Publishers Weekly Nelson's newest collection continues the genre dodging of her second poetry collection, Jane: A Mystery. We don't really know/ how to respond. (Nov.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. . Narrative, sentimental and