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Title: The Beforelife by FRANZ WRIGHT ISBN: 0-375-70943-6 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 02 April, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (3 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: too little apparent effort
Comment: Just because someone poetically bares his soul about addiction and recovery does not ipso facto mean the expression of baring is of poetic value. To be sure, there are some striking phrases, and Wright's ability to "turn on a dime" as the jacket states is evident. But so much of this stuff seems as though it never got past the first draft, as though pieces of conversation were stenographed, cut up and put on the page to look like poetry rather than like prosaic ordinaria.
Rating: 1
Summary: affect or content?
Comment: As I read through this book I had the growing impression that the author was more concerned with his role as poet than he was in his poems. Too often we're given a "mood" line or gesture and not something that grows out of the poem itself, but the mood wears thin and so does the role.
Rating: 5
Summary: Scalpel on a Napkin
Comment: Whispered and etched, this book, this swarm of white space razored by words, this pill of dry and dead truth and black stars hanging in the far parts of the mind, which quietly explode (like an echo of an explosion) when you least expect them to, is one of the most urgent books of poetry I've read in several years. The occasional primordial club bashing the back of one's skull, the self-deprecating humor ("you will find me . . . . at the motherless sky.com"), the deeply earned authority to say with complete conviction "Why isn't Jesus's face ever described?/ Because/ in heaven unlike earth/ it doesn't make a difference/ what one looks like/ I suppose" This is a courageous and startling book of poems, a new chapter, in fact, in American Poetry.
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Title: Walking to Martha's Vineyard: Poems by Franz Wright ISBN: 0375415181 Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: ILL LIT: Selected & New Poems (Field Poetry Series) by Franz Wright ISBN: 0932440835 Publisher: Oberlin College Press Pub. Date: December, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Above the River: The Complete Poems by James Wright ISBN: 0374522820 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 01 May, 1992 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Trouble in Mind : Poems by LUCIE BROCK-BROIDO ISBN: 1400040833 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 20 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: The Unknown Rilke (Field Translation Series) by Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Wright ISBN: 0932440568 Publisher: Oberlin College Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1991 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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