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elly29's review
challenging
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
3.25
Prose poems are interesting things, and this is an entire collection of them. (I'd encountered a beautiful Lance Larsen poem on FB, which was not prose, and was expecting more of that.) That said, there is something so beautiful and meditative about reading poetry, and the introduction of novel arrangements of words into novel ideas and feelings. Most of the poetry flowed by me like a river, but there were some phrases that stuck. And even some poems that stuck.
"Shop Man had a roomful of night stands and needy students to hammer together so he left. I had desire and the rest of my life so I stayed." -- from "Once Again, Virginia Woolf Swims Back to Me"
"A cat is a door we keep around the house to remind us we once preferred the world of animals. Morning has come. My door, which is now our door, leans against the wall the way shadows lean into the next life. My cat passes through this practice portal to prove she is still here. I get down on all fours, a rehearsal. I have doors all over my body -- open them." -- from "Doors," but eh you should really read the whole poem, it's so well-crafted
Favorite poems were "Valentine Poem Written After Learning of a Tragic Mishap in a Local Cave" (I do love me some visceral Valentine's Day poems about the other sides of love), "A Little Blood on the Ceiling," "Doors," and "In Toledo, the Sequestered Brides of Christ."
"Shop Man had a roomful of night stands and needy students to hammer together so he left. I had desire and the rest of my life so I stayed." -- from "Once Again, Virginia Woolf Swims Back to Me"
"A cat is a door we keep around the house to remind us we once preferred the world of animals. Morning has come. My door, which is now our door, leans against the wall the way shadows lean into the next life. My cat passes through this practice portal to prove she is still here. I get down on all fours, a rehearsal. I have doors all over my body -- open them." -- from "Doors," but eh you should really read the whole poem, it's so well-crafted
Favorite poems were "Valentine Poem Written After Learning of a Tragic Mishap in a Local Cave" (I do love me some visceral Valentine's Day poems about the other sides of love), "A Little Blood on the Ceiling," "Doors," and "In Toledo, the Sequestered Brides of Christ."
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