I feel a pleasure of never contained sweep over me, now that I know place is never
Clear or wholly settled, not even the veins on the und... read full description
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Dec 31, 2009
Laura
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Pretty amazing stuff here. There are very few volumes of poetry that I am compelled to read straight through (I usually open them randomly and skip around) but Laurie Sheck's Captivity really does have a nearly narrative thread. Her "long-lined" poems dance on the edge of the hallucinatory at times, are filled with word play and wonder and wandering. She uses words we may normally consider non-emotive in ways that fill us with dread, loss, loneliness and vague imaginings. I picked this
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Jun 16, 2009
Matthew
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Sheck's trademark long lines are here but in poems of much shorter length in an odd-book size (square) that respects the long width of the line but the shorter length of the poem, which is refreshing after the dense poem lengths of The Willow Grove and Black Series (which also suffered from font and spacing that were perhaps too small and condensed).
These poems investigate a state of mind (captivity) more than anything, the mind at work, the mind reflecting upon itself, and the mind More...
These poems investigate a state of mind (captivity) more than anything, the mind at work, the mind reflecting upon itself, and the mind More...
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Jan 30, 2011
Alana
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Complex, dense, lovely poems despite their brevity - a hard go, for me, but worthwhile.
Sep 01, 2008
Kelly
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This was fine. I picked it up on a recommendation from a friend. There are some lines in this collection that stick out to me and I jotted down because I liked how they sounded when spoken aloud.
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