Kent's review
The Usable Field by Jane Mead
Kent's review
rating:
bookshelves: contemporary-poetry, poetry-2000s
status: Read in September, 2008
rating:
bookshelves: contemporary-poetry, poetry-2000s
status: Read in September, 2008
A highly anticipated release for me. And I was lucky enough to read it in a quiet apartment. The electricity was out because of the hurricane. In that silence I felt Mead's silence, her way of creating an emotional landscape, wide as it is deep, with each word treading through that space easily and deliberately. It is a quiet book, with grief as its subject, while openly admitting words are only slight referents to such a subject.
I just got through reading this, and your note served as a healthy reminder to slow down while reading Mead (which for me also means rereading her poems again and again). Thanks!
