The Commandrine and Other Poems
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| Rating | : | 4.60 (919 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 097409093X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 61 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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The siren with a catch in its cry starts over." (Mar.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. From Publishers Weekly A "commandrine" is the female captain of a ship, and in the long verse play that gives this sophomore book its title, our leader attempts to guide four unruly sailors who frequently converse with the devil. "I am the world I cannot see"), but raises the question in a manner as convincing as it is playful. All rights reserved. "Shall I exercise my command?" asks the commandrine, making it clear that this poem, and the rest of this nervy collection, has that most fundamental question of art making at stake: What constitutes the authority of the artist? McSweeney offers no real answer to this ancient unanswerable ("Don't you know/ the riddle?" asks the poet. And as in life, art making blends with other forms of union and reproduction (the first poem ends with the line, "Ent'ring our marriage r
"Comical poems about gap between hopes and reality" according to Henry Berry. The title poem is a 15-page verse play of nine scenes that is like a comical Moby Dick with the nonsensical, yet evocative, repartee of a Samuel Beckett play. The source of McSweeney's poems is a comic energy and skewed eye. The brief poem "Bugs Bunny, Or, The Mirror That Held a Little Camera," beings, "I'm rundown. I've got a sunburn. These ears are my liability but they hold a lot." Even when the comic style abates at times when a somber subject is raised, the language remains sharp and inventive, as in "Youth Image" wher. Full of Universes In her second book, The Commandrine and Other Poems, Joyelle McSweeney executes an act of self-identification liberated from the confines of narrative, landscape, and body. The voice talks back at self with complete empathy for object as vessel of personal communion, a purer introspection than the world as mirror. Each image and word-image found in that interior serves in the continuous act of defining (defiantly in the face of matter) its maker by (rather than lashing words to facts) fashioning the necessary facts out of w
In her second book McSweeney finds her subjects in the long form; The Commandrine is a verse-play that in nine scenes tells the story of sailors Zest, Coast, Ivory, and Irish, and their run-in with the Devil.. The brilliance of Joyelle McSweeney's poems is a given; what remains delightfully open to negotiation are its methodologies and its mien