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Captivity: Poems
by
Laurie Sheck
The “exquisite and haunting” (Booklist) collection of poems built around the language and mystique of American captivity narratives in which Sheck enters the vivid life we live inside our own minds and selves, and takes us into the mysterious underside of consciousness and selfhood.
Paperback, 96 pages
Published
June 2nd 2009
by Knopf
(first published 2006)
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Pretty amazing stuff here. There are very few volumes of poetry that I am compelled to read straight through (I usually open them randomly and skip around) but Laurie Sheck's Captivity really does have a nearly narrative thread. Her "long-lined" poems dance on the edge of the hallucinatory at times, are filled with word play and wonder and wandering. She uses words we may normally consider non-emotive in ways that fill us with dread, loss, loneliness and vague imaginings. I picked this...more
Sheck's trademark long lines are here but in poems of much shorter length in an odd-book size (square) that respects the long width of the line but the shorter length of the poem, which is refreshing after the dense poem lengths of The Willow Grove and Black Series (which also suffered from font and spacing that were perhaps too small and condensed).
These poems investigate a state of mind (captivity) more than anything, the mind at work, the mind reflecting upon itself, and the mind ...more
These poems investigate a state of mind (captivity) more than anything, the mind at work, the mind reflecting upon itself, and the mind ...more
Complex, dense, lovely poems despite their brevity - a hard go, for me, but worthwhile.
This was fine. I picked it up on a recommendation from a friend. There are some lines in this collection that stick out to me and I jotted down because I liked how they sounded when spoken aloud.
weak I liked Black Series so much more.
Heather Moss
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