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Poets and Poetry.(Starred Wire, A Word Like Fire: Selected Poems, by Dick Barnes, Love, Amy: The Selected Letters of Amy Clampitt, A Poet's Prose: Selected Writings of Louise Bogan)(Book Review)
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Poets and Poetry.(Starred Wire, A Word Like Fire: Selected Poems, by Dick Barnes, Love, Amy: The Selected Letters of Amy Clampitt, A Poet's Prose: Selected Writings of Louise Bogan)(Book Review)
Publication: The New Yorker Publication Date: 29-AUG-05 |
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COPYRIGHT 2005 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc.
Starred Wire, by Ange Mlinko (Coffee House; $15). Mlinko has said that she prefers her poems "layered and loaded up," and, in her second book, lines like "Freezing the rapidly flowing global language into spun sugar gardens" show you exactly what she's talking about. Thick with knotty words and bizarre juxtapositions, these poems dissolve syntax and estrange language from conventional meaning. Some passages recall Surrealist forebears--"Schoolkids jumping the jellyfish fences / Wearing cranberry jackets / Through the paisley briars and stars"--and poems such as "Bon...
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