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Romanticism: Poems
Romanticism explores and challenges the central ideas of high Romanticism: the tragedy and gallantry of the individual’s life journey, the appeal of revolution and violence, the beckoning forces of Nature, and the estrangement from but constant longing for God. Here is a powerful argument for the primacy of strong emotion.
“Ungeliebt”
So I offered a bargain:
All of it, the bo...more
“Ungeliebt”
So I offered a bargain:
All of it, the bo...more
Hardcover, 80 pages
Published
June 1st 2009
by W. W. Norton & Company
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April Bernard’s first, eponymously titled collection, BLACKBIRD BYE BYE, resonated with notes and meaning that continue to echo in ROMANTICISM, her latest book: “Oh, what hard-luck stories they all hand me,” goes the Mort Dickinson and Ray Henderson standard, “Make my bed and light the light / I’ll arrive late tonight, Blackbird bye bye.” What has changed is the broadened scope of those hard-luck stories, sung with dazzle, fury, and a apocalyptic undertone, accompanied by Bernard’s downright wic...more
One of the greatest living poets, if not the! It's bizarre, yet shouldn't be surprising that talents like this are unknown and publish only a few titles while millions listen to "Kidz Bop" with disgusting glee.
I don't feel authoritative enough to hold forth on a particular collection's merits or shortcomings; all I can define is what I like--what resonates with me, what touches me emotionally, and/or engages me intellectually--and I liked this.
Brava!
May these tear-dripped cookies secure her fortune
southward, to the end of
seasons.
May these tear-dripped cookies secure her fortune
southward, to the end of
seasons.
Over the years I have heard April Bernard read a number of these poems and have been waiting patiently for them to come out in a book. Although I haven't finished I am not disappointed.
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April Bernard is the author of three poetry collections and a novel. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, the Boston Review, the New York Review of Books, and elsewhere. She lives in Bennington, Vermont.
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