Poetry. "A paradox sets these disquieting and beautiful DISASTER SUITES into motion. They produce a music--'missing in the count now counts as one'...
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Apr 14, 2010
Adam
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good synergy between the work and his essay at the end apologizing for some of its aspects, explaining others - a nice move of disclaimer that comes off as interesting rather than negative; adds a dimension to our experience of poetic response to disaster.
all in all interesting that he can mix a style reminiscent of oppen's philosophical abstractions with socio-political critique. to make the case that real situations are worthy of the highest cognitive attention.
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all in all interesting that he can mix a style reminiscent of oppen's philosophical abstractions with socio-political critique. to make the case that real situations are worthy of the highest cognitive attention.
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Jun 01, 2009
David
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If, as in Halpern's (and Brady's) Snow Sensitive Skin, to hear is, in deliberate and painstaking (and painful) ways, to listen to what one's ear hears and does not hear, Disaster Suites is the broken music box of worlds of distances that feel our suppositions of the most intimate proximity to catastrophes that are, in fact, unFELT miles away. The distance between "I" and its supposed referents; the distance between disaster felt and disaster thought, then said; the distance between a
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Sep 27, 2009
CAConrad
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LOVE IT!
I've created a (Soma)tic Reading Enhancement for it, which you can see at the ATTENTION SPAN 2009 List here: http://thirdfactory.wordpress.com/2009/0...
THIS IS AN AMAZING YEAR FOR POETRY!
CAConrad
http://CAConrad.blogspot.com
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There have been some amazing books of poetry this year, and this one (for me) is a favorite! We're at a bootblack junction, here, together, and these suites feel the pain so well.
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I've created a (Soma)tic Reading Enhancement for it, which you can see at the ATTENTION SPAN 2009 List here: http://thirdfactory.wordpress.com/2009/0...
THIS IS AN AMAZING YEAR FOR POETRY!
CAConrad
http://CAConrad.blogspot.com
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There have been some amazing books of poetry this year, and this one (for me) is a favorite! We're at a bootblack junction, here, together, and these suites feel the pain so well.
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Mar 02, 2010
Jamie
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This book is a revelation, a multiversal lyric that sings clearly through its own fracture/fracturing without device or gimmick. Not -away from- but unflinchingly -out of- the state of things, DS is book about the real, the continuous, and raw, so culturally abstracted and conceptualized; the politics of product held close to the site of disaster. Oppen's "materials" are given a new time and place here, as particles reaching forward into an as of yet unnamed future.
May 08, 2009
Jennifer
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Devoured on a subway ride, to be returned to & again--with an afterword that specifies the desired ephemerality of its impulses--& thereby makes it a lasting, loved study in the lyric's sporadic power.
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