Reviews

Poem for the End of Time and Other Poems by Noelle Kocot

lawrence_retold's review against another edition

3.0

On first starting to read this book, it seemed like Kocot's poems were a clash of colorful images without substance to hold them together. Now that I'm through it, it seems like she really does have something to say, and just says it in incredibly oblique, roundabout ways, especially in the long, mournful poem dedicated to her late husband that takes up the second half of the book (and then some), "Poem for the End of Time". Filled with intentional echoes of [a:Ginsberg|4261|Allen Ginsberg|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1421583811p2/4261.jpg] ("America your poets are flocking to my neighborhood / They are sick of your insane demands my neighborhood") and others, "Poem for the End of Time"'s indirection and fugue- or symphony-like structure goes quite well with its lamenting nature: how, after all, to speak the unspeakable?

leaflibrary's review

1.0

One star for an amazing title, but unfortunately I could not get into a single one of these poems no matter how I read them.