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My Soviet Union: Poems (Juniper Prize For Poetry)
by
Michael Dumanis (Goodreads Author)
The speaker of the simultaneously funny and devastating poems in this remarkable first collection comes from a country that, like the Soviet Union, no longer exists, a place he treats with a mixture of nostalgia, disdain, and bewilderment as he strives to achieve a sense of order in his current disordered environment, a post-apocalyptic landscape with striking similarities...more
Paperback, 81 pages
Published
April 1st 2007
by University of Massachusetts Press
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This book was great; with 81 pages there's nearly something for everyone. A few poems were a bit too "out there" for me, sort of lide writing exercises with their very Gertrude Stein-like ranting, but parts 3 and 4 are incredible.
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Felt real keyed into how the poems move. There are beautiful turns, transformations in image and the line--
Imagine our relief, our disappointment,
when someone told us the grenade
we had discovered, the grenade
we took delight in kicking to each other,
was just a clump of night or else some earth
or just a heart or else
some lesser organ.
Appreciated also the urgency in some of the poems, their capacity to enact a less than tranquil, charged mode of thought--
When she said she would rather cut
what was i...more
Imagine our relief, our disappointment,
when someone told us the grenade
we had discovered, the grenade
we took delight in kicking to each other,
was just a clump of night or else some earth
or just a heart or else
some lesser organ.
Appreciated also the urgency in some of the poems, their capacity to enact a less than tranquil, charged mode of thought--
When she said she would rather cut
what was i...more
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"The Woods Are Burning," in particular, is chillingly brilliant.
Michael Dumanis is definitely my favorite contemporary poet. His voice cuts so deep and his language is beautiful. My copy is worn out from flipping through it so much.
Read for class; found it jumpy and uninteresting.
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Michael Dumanis was born in the former Soviet Union and lived there until 1981, when his parents were granted political asylum in the United States. Since then, he has lived in Boston, Buffalo, Rochester, Baltimore, Iowa City, New York, Bulgaria, Chicago, Cincinnati, Houston, Nebraska, and Cleveland. He is the author of My Soviet Union,, winner of the 2006 Juniper Prize for Poetry, and the coedito...more
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