The Brass Girl Brouhaha
by Adrian Blevins
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Adrian is possibly the most interesting person I have ever met. She was one of the fellows in my workshop at Sewanee this past summer, and one of the few people with whom I was able to grumble about the lack of aesthetic range at that conference, without feeling like I had to explain that didn't mean I wasn't having a marvelous time. Not only that, but she is one of the best readers of poetry I have ever known - astute, articulate, always with an eye to all the possibilities a poem seems to ho...more
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Love, sex, childbirth and other messiness are the themes of Blevins' collection. The poems themselves are rather like overflowing garbage bags- banana peels, tuna cans, wads of paper towels. I don't mean that disparagingly. Most of the poems in this collection succeed in their intent. Some, however, seem to suffer from the gorging of images, sounds and sheer raw emotion. Overall, I enjoyed the book. It's one you can read in a couple sittings, turning the pages, delighting in Blevins' ability to ...more
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Read in June, 2008
The first half of this book was pretty good, but perhaps only because I read it while getting a pedicure. After that, her self-obsessed ramblings about motherhood and being a woman and the world and blah blah blah. Kinda boring.
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Blevins makes the long-lined American yawp we know from Whitman and Ginsberg her own here, turning out punchy poems of autobiographical messiness.
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