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Title: Why/Why Not (New California Poetry) by Martha Ronk ISBN: 0-520-23811-7 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95

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Summary: The Swirling Beauty of Ronk's "Why/Why Not"
Comment: Martha Ronk dazzles us with the swirling beauty of her poetry in "Why/Why Not." In Hamlet-like questioning, her lines blend, break and turn on themselves in ways that startle, surprise and shock. In "Anticipation," she begins: "Anticipation stood at attention through the entire scene/what else was there to do but lean/as a dancer before lift." And then the sock between the eyes: "Something was bound to occur." But no, because "whatever he did/to hold time at bay or move it backwards/was what she also said about whether or not/she could stay the same if she didn't lift a finger/and if he'd keep on speaking there'd be no finale/and he'd hold still the April of his prime." In "That subject again," she complains of how death (that subject) intrudes with companions, a "three-headed dog/chain smoking barflies/and all that whirled-about smoke." You will want to read and re-read these poems; Ronk's language will get under your skin leaving you with desperate, simple, yet unanswerable questions.