Drawing from the paintings of Susan Rothenberg, Gwyneth Scally, and Eric Fischl as well as from the photography of Allison Maletz, Joshua Marie Wi...
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Dec 17, 2009
Jen
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Wilkinson's title already introduces the language you will find here, captivating, unique, mysterious, broken. This "poem in fragments" is like scenes through a viewfinder, not quite but almost piecing together, like memory. I am caste towards a place which is familiar, concrete yet unraveling under my fingertips. A land of suburbia and thieves, of ladders and puzzles of instamatic Kodak images. Lovely.
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Nov 30, 2007
George
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Joshua Marie Wilkinson is a remarkable poet of the generation now coming of age. His voice carries much of the wisdom of his poetic forebears, Paul Celan among them.
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Dec 11, 2007
Jennifer
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I'm re-reading this over and over again. So beautiful.
"In swimming pool light
the boy who freed the moth
plods back up the stairs, does
a little jig in the mirror
& flops
into bed.
He has cats & sisters & confuses on purpose
their names.
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The machines
break down in a street sweeping huff
& the city has its
imperial way with us.
"In swimming pool light
the boy who freed the moth
plods back up the stairs, does
a little jig in the mirror
& flops
into bed.
He has cats & sisters & confuses on purpose
their names.
***
The machines
break down in a street sweeping huff
& the city has its
imperial way with us.
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Jan 15, 2008
W.B.
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I've only read excerpts but I want it. Everything I read was well above the sublunary usual. Also, "Wolf Dust" on YouTube is a really great short short. The perceptual timing of those lights on the poem's "drive" are about perfect...you'd think someone studied Kandinsky's Farbstudien or summat. Those color studies have been abused horribly by design whores in recent years, but here it's more a real approximation of the sort of spiritual alchemy K. believed in. I'm not sure th
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Nov 29, 2007
Laura
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if the "careless body" is the text that we live, then josh's writing is the gorgeous "lug" that unyieldingly examines actions as they pass through the lexicon of the world. i assume the "careful dusk" is the coherency that we must contend with with each gesture. josh's writing exists somewhere in between careful and careless, for instance, when a careless mattress turns into a door.
these aren't "poems"- a careless approach to conformity of the More...
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Mar 26, 2010
Greg
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picked up at a used book store while on vacation. a very worthy piece of work.
Apr 29, 2008
Lauren
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well, i'm a little disturbed that for a year and a half I thought this book was called "Lug your careless body out of the careful DUST." So I was kind of taken aback when, 10 pages from the end I glanced at the cover again and realized it was DUSK. i don't know what that says about my attention to poetic detail.
My favorite line is "Cities are for breaking you into several people at once."
My favorite line is "Cities are for breaking you into several people at once."
Feb 09, 2009
Allison
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I think after re-reading this, I'd probably give it four stars, but I can't re-read it because someone recalled it at the library. With so many books to read, I probably won't return to it soon. I was intrigued by the thieves. But I don't know that I'm too into the fragment thing, really.
Nov 25, 2007
Charmi
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It was hard for me to rate this one. There were some good fragments, but on the whole the fragments just didn't get it for me. It was too fragmented. Personal taste, I guess.
Dec 18, 2007
Andy
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Though the title is better than the actual poems inside, it's still better than most modern (1960-present) poems I read there days.
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