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Beginning with O
This is a book of letting go, of wild avowals, unabashed eroticism; at the same time it is a work of integral imagination, steeped in the light of Greek myth that is part of the poet's heritage and imbued with an intuitive sense of dramatic conflicts and resolutions, high style, and musical form.
Paperback, 87 pages
Published
September 10th 1977
by Yale University Press
(first published 1977)
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Okay, first of all, Olga Broumas teaches at the college I attend. I'm taking a class with her this year, and she's a fantastic little old woman, and I am incredibly biased. Incredibly. Biased.
At the same time, though, although I know she's very highly prized in "lesbian" poetry, I don't particularly like erotic poetry. It doesn't really appeal to me. Frankly, it makes me feel like I'm spying on a very private moment between people, despite that the author obviously chose to have it published and...more
At the same time, though, although I know she's very highly prized in "lesbian" poetry, I don't particularly like erotic poetry. It doesn't really appeal to me. Frankly, it makes me feel like I'm spying on a very private moment between people, despite that the author obviously chose to have it published and...more
I’m not sure what a straight male has to say about a book of poems by a lesbian when so many of the poems are about sex. Go the cheap route and say that they are hot? Well, some are, but I detect an arc to the loose narrative. Broumas’s speaker (possibly herself) begins as a sexual predator, living for cheap thrills and organisms from whatever woman she can coax into bed. She ends tenderly, caring about the feelings of her last partner(s). Did she fool around and fall in love? I must read more o...more
I have read these poems often and over many years.
They still sing to my soul.
They still sing to my soul.
Books Read in the Past:
Greece.
This is the best of Broumas's poetry, though I imagine Adrienne Rich would find in its tightness a certain distance of the self. Broumas's later volumes range from structurally loose to experimental, some seeming to be more focused on the sounds of the poems while others are more accessible in their content.
This volume won the Yale Series of Younger Poets award.
Greece.
This is the best of Broumas's poetry, though I imagine Adrienne Rich would find in its tightness a certain distance of the self. Broumas's later volumes range from structurally loose to experimental, some seeming to be more focused on the sounds of the poems while others are more accessible in their content.
This volume won the Yale Series of Younger Poets award.
i hyped this up in my head since hearing a poet talk about it at a poetry reading. it was good poetry for sure, but nothing that reached out and grabbed my anything.
i think i always tend to zone out on poems as soon as "god" or some other myth allusion is mentioned.
my favorite line in the whole book
"the eyes are live animals, domiciled in our head"
i think i always tend to zone out on poems as soon as "god" or some other myth allusion is mentioned.
my favorite line in the whole book
"the eyes are live animals, domiciled in our head"
I'm a sucker for queer erotic fairy-tale/greek-myth poetic adaptations. So this book is perfect. ;)
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