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Where's the Moon, There's the Moon: Poems
by
Dan Chiasson
These are powerfully original poems about the sweetness and pain of adulthood and fatherhood by the critically acclaimed poet Dan Chiasson.
A child’s improvised game of “Where’s the moon, There’s the moon” is the shaping metaphor for this collection, but adult matters of seeking and finding, loss and recovery, anticipation and desire’s uncertain rewards are at its heart. Ch...more
A child’s improvised game of “Where’s the moon, There’s the moon” is the shaping metaphor for this collection, but adult matters of seeking and finding, loss and recovery, anticipation and desire’s uncertain rewards are at its heart. Ch...more
Hardcover, 88 pages
Published
February 2nd 2010
by Knopf
(first published 2010)
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Oct 04, 2011
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My introduction to this collection came via a single poem, "Thread," which was posted on the Academy of American Poets website (http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/pr...). While I knew nothing of Chiasson, I was immediately certain that this was the work of a father, of someone who had spent a great deal of time reading to his children. And for once, my aim was true.
How different from the first Chiasson poem I remember reading and filed, in my haphazard way, randomly among the pages of one of my...more
How different from the first Chiasson poem I remember reading and filed, in my haphazard way, randomly among the pages of one of my...more
This book is split into a few smatterings of pithy poems and a titular section dealing in broad, allegorical strokes that seem more in line with Chiasson's earlier work. I found the latter more bewitching, though the paternal tones of the piece seem more directed at Dan's own relationship with his father, and not as a father—not only a missed opportunity but a missed promise, being as the book is dedicated to his children. The work still springs from a well-read, irreverent mind, and Chiasson ge...more
More sort of vaguely run-of-the-mill contemporary modernist-lite free verse from New Yorker scribe and Wellesley prof Chiasson. I finished it about a week ago; the physical book is in my apartment in New York, and I am sitting in Pennsylvania trying to remember a single distinguishing thing about it other than that he writes about masturbation a lot, and that Kay Ryan -- who, whatever else you say about her, writes poems that are instantly identifable -- blurbed it. That pretty much says it all.
It took me several reads to understand what was going on in this book, which is a good reason to read it. I liked the second half better than the first--the title poem is pretty amazing, but the "Swifts" poems in the beginning I wanted to like the idea of them, but they remain fairly inaccessible to me. I mean, I get what they're trying to do, they just don't make me feel anything. Chiasson is apparently trying to reinvent his "style" with each of his books. I don't know whether I should ascribe...more
I'm looking forward to purchasing 'Natural History'.
found a nice hard back autographed copy at Raven Used Books on Newbury St. Boston.
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