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A review by stupidpieceofhuman
Rain by Don Paterson
5.0
"i'm even lonelier than i thought i was."
first of all, i've read so many great and awesome poetry books this year where some books stayed with me (wendy cope's "if i don't know" or john ashbery's "a worldly country"), and some didn't (seamus heany's "district and circle"). but, i'm glad that i have read them a lot in this year, and i'll continue to read more of them, if everything goes alright. this book is also one of the best poetry books i have read.
you saw that i have read "the long take", recently, right? well, in acknowledgement, robertson, the writer of the book, expressed his gratitude to paterson for editing his book. paterson is also a scottish poet, but this is the first time i have read his poems.
reading his poetry feels like the poet, being a human, have seen or known life without having the treacherous knowledge of life completely. the poet talks about mortal fear of death or of leavetaking of love, but it also infuses the comic absurdity in them. also, the poems in this book are very much well-structured as how the poems must have serialised to give you the proper feeling of reading a neat poetry book. this book or the poems in the book follows the form of elegy, for paterson remembers one of his fellow poets, who passed away, in this book. along with that, i loved reading the homages he gave to the poets in his own poems and poetic style. i got to know about robert desnos from his poems. i'd love to find and read more poems of this french surrealist poet. thank you so much, paterson. i loved his poems so much. also, i'd like to talk about a poem in this book named, "unfold". in this poem, there are no words or lines for two pages. it's a blank poem which i've never seen (or, read) before in my life. amazing, no?
first of all, i've read so many great and awesome poetry books this year where some books stayed with me (wendy cope's "if i don't know" or john ashbery's "a worldly country"), and some didn't (seamus heany's "district and circle"). but, i'm glad that i have read them a lot in this year, and i'll continue to read more of them, if everything goes alright. this book is also one of the best poetry books i have read.
you saw that i have read "the long take", recently, right? well, in acknowledgement, robertson, the writer of the book, expressed his gratitude to paterson for editing his book. paterson is also a scottish poet, but this is the first time i have read his poems.
reading his poetry feels like the poet, being a human, have seen or known life without having the treacherous knowledge of life completely. the poet talks about mortal fear of death or of leavetaking of love, but it also infuses the comic absurdity in them. also, the poems in this book are very much well-structured as how the poems must have serialised to give you the proper feeling of reading a neat poetry book. this book or the poems in the book follows the form of elegy, for paterson remembers one of his fellow poets, who passed away, in this book. along with that, i loved reading the homages he gave to the poets in his own poems and poetic style. i got to know about robert desnos from his poems. i'd love to find and read more poems of this french surrealist poet. thank you so much, paterson. i loved his poems so much. also, i'd like to talk about a poem in this book named, "unfold". in this poem, there are no words or lines for two pages. it's a blank poem which i've never seen (or, read) before in my life. amazing, no?