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Title: Hurdy-Gurdy (Cleveland State University Poetry Series: XXXVIII) by Tim Seibles ISBN: 0-914946-98-6 Publisher: Cleveland State Univ Poetry Center Pub. Date: 01 October, 1992 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Beautiful...It does what poetry should do to your heart!
Comment: The first time I opended this book, I could not put it down. Tim Seibles' words were beautiful, touching, and warming. His is the type of poetry I would like to read everyday, if I could and if it were available. I found myself re-reading this book three times because I enjoyed the poems that much. Read this, re-read it, and just for kicks, read it again! You'll enjoy it if you enjoy and appreciate the beauty of words.
Rating: 5
Summary: A book that stays with you
Comment: I wasn't sure I was going to write until I saw uiop45's review. I as well am originally from Boston and was introduced to Seibles when I was in High School at a writers conference in NH, at Breadloaf. I would be very interested to know if it was at this same conference that we both heard Seibles read and I as well have had his poems stick with me. I have bought all the rest of his books and have waited for a new one to appear (which finally has). Great poems, beautiful, lyrical phrases, honest and clear. Even now, years after having read it I can remember the end of the line quoted by the above reviewer "hearing a name sung quietly behind you all day" Great stuff, sticks with you
Rating: 4
Summary: Seibles makes y'all Dance
Comment: In his fifth collection of poems, Tim Seibles' irreverent and humorous allusions to slices of American popular culture serve as a more comfortable, user-friendly vehicle to drive at some rather uncomfortable topics. The 40 poems in Hammerlock primarily deal with racial, political and religious tension in America. Using big-picture topics - about which so much has been written, discussed and re-written to the point of hackneyed redundancy that we sometimes tend to skip over the meaning behind the issues - Seibles really delivers, bringing his social concerns to life with surprising newness. In this book, it's the packaging that really conveys the message. In "What Bugs Bunny Said to Red Riding Hood," Seibles comments on the violent nature of man by using the voice with which countless boys grew up watching on Saturday morning cartoons. "This was your mother's idea? / She been livin' in a CrackerJack box or somethin' / ... That's right. Maybe your motha should / turn off her soaps, take a peak at a newspaper, turn on some cartoons for Pete's sake: / this woyld is about teeth, bubble buns - who's bitin' / and who's getting bit." Poems like this and "Commercial Break: Road-Runner, Uneasy," or its companion poem, "Midnight: the Coyote, Down in the Mouth," where Wile E. Coyote suffers through an all-to-human midlife crisis of self-doubt, hearken back to Seibles' previous work with cartoon allegories in 1992's Hurdy Gurdy. In this collection, "Natasha in a Mellow Mood," and its companion, "Boris by Candlelight," used cartoon characters from The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show to show that villains - even communists - call fall in love. Seibles likes to present common events, like growing old or falling in love, through uncommon perspectives. Then, by using the objective correlative so frequently it almost makes you question the meaning of the very print on the page, Seibles makes his point. He's going to give us different perspectives, whether they come from the voice of a woman, man, an imaginary conversation with Jimi Hendrix, or this "found poetry," taken from a 1965 speech given by Malcolm X: "Black on black crime is / a form of suicide. Gangs, drugs - / they're all part of a community trying / to slit its own wrists. Nobody / wants to deal with this. Sociologists say / build more recreation centers, / Give The Negro More Basketballs, / as if our true home was a gym." For many of the poems in this collection, that point is that people are more alike than we think - and our perspectives are more different than we think. Seibles knows the grass is greener on the other side. Seibles knows we want to fly south for the winter. Seibles knows we can't do none of it! So his poetry lets a white man see something he sees every day - but this time it's through the eyes of a black man. He lets a cartoon character feel tired of running toward the same sunset over the same rocky cliffs. In "Four Takes of a Similar Situation," he shows that the ideas of differences - between races, ethnicity, sexes, religions or colors - are the only things keeping us different, so "the world mus be retarded." Seibles knows that sometimes the best way to examine ourselves is to be temporarily removed from ourselves. It's all about perspective. It's also all about meter. Seibles has always written poetry that's so rhythmic and sound-oriented that you'd be better off using a metronome than attempting scansion. This time is no exception. Most poems have an underlying ghost meter, but it's the syncopation that draws attention to the poem's real pulse. "and say the afternoon / is the sound of heat / standing in the trees. / Maybe someone could know / about love / ... ." Seibles uses slant-rhyme or direct rhyme, he rhymes images or ideas, he switches between internal- or end-rhyme in a single couplet, but the point is, he uses a lot of all of it. If his poetry is a song, the various methods of rhyming serve to lay down something that would resemble a melody. But the beat, rich in syncopation, is always changing, keeping you on your feet, giving you poetry that pounds so y'all can dance to it.
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Title: Body Moves (Corona Poetry Series) by Tim Seibles ISBN: 0931722683 Publisher: Corona Publishing Co. Pub. Date: 01 November, 1988 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Hammerlock (imagination Series Vol. 3) by Tim Seibles ISBN: 1880834456 Publisher: Cleveland State Univ Poetry Center Pub. Date: 25 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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