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Internal West: Poems
Internal Priscilla Internal William Ralph FIRST First Edition Thus, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Zoo Press, 2001. Octavo. Paperback. Book is like new. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.Seller 353525 Poetry We Buy Books! Collections - Libraries - Estates - Individual Titles. Message us if you have books to sell!
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First published March 1, 2002
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January 1, 2014
I'll admit that contemporary poetry leaves me feeling excluded too much--like I just can't know enough about the life, or the scene, or the experience, to share what's being expressed. And since I find myself going to poetry when I'm in need of feeling close to something personal, getting elbowed out of what's going on is kind of annoying. So Priscilla Becker, while as enigmatic as expected, gave me enough moments of powerful, raw pain that I was glad I tried to peer into her world. The first lines of the first poem, "The Backyard"--"One day the sky grows up and stops/impressing us with blues and plots/of light"--is a pretty, insidiously simple reversal of what really changes with time: you. The world, alas, keeps on, relentlessly, brutally, waiting for all of us to get it. And we get it slowly. "Things I Have Decided Since" brought me to the book, and it's still my favorite. "I tried to lose you in the Mato Grosso jungle/ but screamed when it got cold." Beautiful. Terrifying. And there's that external world again, flexing its horror, swallowing, here, all the comfort she hoped a lover cold bring.
March 12, 2016
I read Priscilla Becker's work in an old issue of The Paris Review, and was so moved I immediately went to buy a book. "Internal West" is one of the best contemporary poetry books out there. I'm not sure what happened to her poetry career (this first book of hers is from 2002 and she only has one additional book I can find) but the language and emotional power is unparalleled. Thus, I will be buying and immediately reading her second book. Well done.
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