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Seeing Birds in Church Is a Kind of Adieu
by
Arlene Ang (Goodreads Author)
Hardcover, 80 pages
Published
by Cinnamon Press
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I've been reading Arlene Ang's poems for a long time in numerous online journals, but this is the first collection I've read (her fifth!). It certainly won't be the last.
I admire this book for many reasons, not least the startling freshness of image and metaphor. Some have called Ang's poems surreal. They don't see surreal to me anymore. Just beautiful. I was especially drawn to the Sonnenizios, but perhaps my favorite poem is "In Memoriam." It's hard to single out any one, however. They're ama...more
I admire this book for many reasons, not least the startling freshness of image and metaphor. Some have called Ang's poems surreal. They don't see surreal to me anymore. Just beautiful. I was especially drawn to the Sonnenizios, but perhaps my favorite poem is "In Memoriam." It's hard to single out any one, however. They're ama...more
I've always enjoyed Arlene's work and her trademark quirkiness. Although highly moving, this collection is somber--like the voice of someone that has sobered up. Writers do evolve, I guess.
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Seeing Birds in Church is a Kind of Adieu deals chiefly with death and loss and bereavement. Some of the poems seem to set out to be playful or simply surreal but at some point in each one - if not from the get-go - you're reading about loss, which is no fun at all. Still, Ang has an imagination that gives her poetry great appeal despite its sometimes heavy burden.
In most cases, the death/loss poems have to do with the death and/or dying of the mother, although sometimes it's someone else, a hu...more
In most cases, the death/loss poems have to do with the death and/or dying of the mother, although sometimes it's someone else, a hu...more
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This is a fresh and remarkable work that explores relationships and perceptions with great imagination and finesse. Sometimes bold and always graceful, Ang's poems demonstrate her true mastery of the surreal.
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• By Moira Richards on Arsenic Lobster: http://arseniclobster.magere.com/1rev...
• By Lynn Levin on Rattle: http://rattle.com/blog/2010/08/seeing...
• By Howard Giskin on Stride Magazine: http://www.stridemagazine.co.uk/Strid...
• By Thomas Fink on Otoliths: http://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2010/...
• By Alison Gibbs on Eyewear: http://toddswift.blogspot.com/2011/01...
• By David Morley on Magma/Warwick Blogs: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/morleyd/
• By Moira Richards on Arsenic Lobster: http://arseniclobster.magere.com/1rev...
• By Lynn Levin on Rattle: http://rattle.com/blog/2010/08/seeing...
• By Howard Giskin on Stride Magazine: http://www.stridemagazine.co.uk/Strid...
• By Thomas Fink on Otoliths: http://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2010/...
• By Alison Gibbs on Eyewear: http://toddswift.blogspot.com/2011/01...
• By David Morley on Magma/Warwick Blogs: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/morleyd/
I love Arlene's work. I often go back to reread this book. Never regret it.
Some of my favorites in the collection: "Ducks release concentric circles," "Love Letter," "Dream Experiments Involving Polaroids," "Insomnia," "Hot tubs," "Mrs. D's Last Letter to Her Son," and whenever we see that ventriloquist. And love those sonnenizios!
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Arlene Ang serves as a poetry editor for The Pedestal Magazine and Press 1. Her third full-length collection, "Seeing Birds in Church is a Kind of Adieu," was published by Cinnamon Press in 2010. She received the 2006 Frogmore Poetry Prize and the 2008 Juked Poetry Prize. Her poetry has been published in Ambit, Diagram, Painted Bride Quarterly, Poetry Ireland, Rattle, Salt Hill Journal, and Stand...more
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