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POSSESSION
“Angela Ball is a poet wise enough to describe love as ‘a double appetite for seeing.’ Her poems are suffused by a wary disappointment in romantic excitement, but with the piqued attention that accompanies desire she makes the world, so far as this can be done, the object of her desire.” ―Williams Matthews
- GenresPoetry
96 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 1995
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March 13, 2019
I did not like this as well as The Museum of the Revolution; it doesn't feel like as cohesive a collection of poems to me.
That being said, there are a couple of poems that are deeply, deeply beautiful. My favorite is "A Language" which reads in part:
I know a time when a bridge
fell, heavy with traffic in a winter
dusk--a fracture and the two sides
sheared away. Each person on the bank
with the secret thought--"I was right
not to believe in it."
So in the middle of the night
I rest my hand on your hip
to have it apprehend a quiet
form, a body, whole.
That being said, there are a couple of poems that are deeply, deeply beautiful. My favorite is "A Language" which reads in part:
I know a time when a bridge
fell, heavy with traffic in a winter
dusk--a fracture and the two sides
sheared away. Each person on the bank
with the secret thought--"I was right
not to believe in it."
So in the middle of the night
I rest my hand on your hip
to have it apprehend a quiet
form, a body, whole.
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