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December 12, 2010
Purchased at the Friends of the Library book sale, 2010, Casper WY.
Honestly, I just don't know what to say about this collection.
When the poetry stayed "quiet" - in other words, the slow, meditative poems about nature and personal relationships - I thought it was very good. But when Cohn made the jump (which he often did) from this point to the "universal," I felt that it was just that - a jump. Nothing seemed to connect the physical image to the infinite.
When I finished reading the collection, I said "Build me a staircase and I will follow you to heaven, but show me clouds miles away and I will be lost." Too much alcohol and melodrama, I suppose, but that's how I felt with this collection. He was either on the ground or too connected to the infinite to ever make a complete connection with the reader. Where he could have led us to an understanding, he seemed to sprint there and expect us as readers to catch up to him. This made the collection feel empty to me, personally. The images were either grounded or abstract and often took that leap in the same poem. It did not feel to me to be a poetry that cared to be understood, but of the same token did not seem to be obtuse simply because it was above us.
Yes, I understand and agree with the message. I just feel it has been delivered much better by other poets.
Honestly, I just don't know what to say about this collection.
When the poetry stayed "quiet" - in other words, the slow, meditative poems about nature and personal relationships - I thought it was very good. But when Cohn made the jump (which he often did) from this point to the "universal," I felt that it was just that - a jump. Nothing seemed to connect the physical image to the infinite.
When I finished reading the collection, I said "Build me a staircase and I will follow you to heaven, but show me clouds miles away and I will be lost." Too much alcohol and melodrama, I suppose, but that's how I felt with this collection. He was either on the ground or too connected to the infinite to ever make a complete connection with the reader. Where he could have led us to an understanding, he seemed to sprint there and expect us as readers to catch up to him. This made the collection feel empty to me, personally. The images were either grounded or abstract and often took that leap in the same poem. It did not feel to me to be a poetry that cared to be understood, but of the same token did not seem to be obtuse simply because it was above us.
Yes, I understand and agree with the message. I just feel it has been delivered much better by other poets.
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