reviews
Dec 31, 2009
Christine
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This guy taught a class I was in at the 2009 Writers @ Work conference in Park City (a great conference in a lovely venue, if you're into that kind of thing). He's the best poetry teacher I ever had, and I've had a few great ones (Stephen Dobyns, Stephen Dunn, etc.). He could take any mediocre poem and pare it down to something fresh and evocative. His poem "The Mouth" (after a painting by Gerhardt Richter) opens, "The mouth was open and we stared into it-- / what could we do abou
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Mar 14, 2009
Ebony
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Song Beyond Reason
The air's blank September heat
breathes into my window,
summer revives
in the massed green heads
of the waiting trees, waiting to write in leaves
their technicolor epitaphs,
brittle, wheezy sayings
rattling in the breeze.
All summer's the season
when love,
beyond reason, flourished
and failed, failed and refin More...
The air's blank September heat
breathes into my window,
summer revives
in the massed green heads
of the waiting trees, waiting to write in leaves
their technicolor epitaphs,
brittle, wheezy sayings
rattling in the breeze.
All summer's the season
when love,
beyond reason, flourished
and failed, failed and refin More...
Jan 20, 2009
Tara
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A good book to learn from; it's a wonderful book in terms of technique. Also, if you like poems that you can peel apart, re-visit, and try to unpack, then this is for you. I tend to enjoy poetry that is more accessible, so this isn't one of my favorites. I really enjoyed the poems after the Iliad and Herodotus - and the Richter painting - but the others didn't really touch me emotionally in any real sense, although most explored painful human experiences like a parent's death.
Jun 03, 2011
bethanne
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This book is absolutely incredible. I love the commmon themes and wordplay that intersect this collection of poems.
Jul 27, 2008
Donna
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This was an interesting, worthwhile read. In it, Sleigh plays with classical references and space exploration images to explore everyday life, setting today's events into a larger context of time and space. I liked some of his poems quite a lot (e.g. "Flood," "Archaic characters," "Lullaby." However, as collection, Space Walk did not "knock my socks" off. It was a solid, readable, and technically sound work.
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