false<![CDATA[Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields (Akron Series in Poetry)]]>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178070043m/754941.jpg7549411In her first book, <i>Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields</i>, Ashley Capps sounds like the voice of a fresh generation of poets, where the familiar turns suddenly elliptical, straight talk goes engagingly crooked, and the lyric negotiates with the matter-of-fact. Desperate for something solid to believe in, Capps still mistrusts authority, feeling disenchanted with God, family, eros, even her own impulsive self. And yet while the absence of faith hints at despair, these poems often achieve, almost inspite of themselves, an odd buoyancy. Playful, fearless, wary, there's a dazzling resilience in this book. One poem can make a grand and eccentric claim, "I forgive the afterlife," while another takes as its title something humbler and more poisonous, "God Bless Our Crop-Dusted Wedding Cake." No matter how adrift this poet may feel, poetry itself remains her anchor and lifeline.7410592006Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields (Akron Series in Poetry)total:96|5:54|4:35|3:6|2:1|964301571342falsefalseTue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008Thu Jan 17 16:35:23 -0800 2008Thu Jan 17 16:42:16 -0800 200850falsefalseTue Mar 18 08:35:07 -0700 2008Tue Mar 18 08:50:48 -0700 2008 Best apple I ever had was three o’clock
in the morning, somewhere outside
San Francisco, beach camping, stars holding
the sky together like sutures. I was thinking
how I was going to get old and ask myself
why did I only live for one thing;
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too much tough for even this
your lame' samurai, your grunt, your glass
plug-ugly agonist.
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50falsefalseTue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008Wed Apr 02 21:44:01 -0700 2008Wed Apr 02 21:48:16 -0700 2008 I loved it. It stirred me. It made me feel like writing again. (which very little has done for a long, long time)
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50falsefalseSun Feb 03 00:00:00 -0800 2008Fri Dec 21 10:00:51 -0800 2007Sun Feb 03 11:46:47 -0800 2008 I am also amazed by the way she can make long (2-page) poems with long lines feel very small and compressed; it is as if when I read so...more...]]>
40falsefalseMon Aug 13 19:54:27 -0700 2007Sat Dec 29 09:27:56 -0800 2007 Yes, a great book! I really enjoyed it. Fun and smart. Gotta reread it again soon!]]>
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