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Title: Given: Poems by Arielle Greenberg ISBN: 0-9723487-1-9 Publisher: Consortium Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Insta-Book
Comment: As I read this and realized what talent Greenberg has, I couldn't help but wish she'd waited a few years to publish a book. There are glimmers of genuine inventiveness here, but too many of these poems are weighted down by the baggage of a kind of currently hip easy and breezy pseudo-experimental gimmickry. Cutsey little typographic tricks (i.e. crossouts, dashes, slashes and scissor-shaped word-art), studied ironies cleverly juxtaposed against the mock-naive, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. When are the crowd publishing in places like Verse and Volt going to realize that its complacency, not experimentation, when your poems all look and sound exactly the same? Greenberg's good, but she still has to filter her own voice from the fashionable clamor of her influences.
Rating: 5
Summary: Given Over!
Comment: These poems are daring, playful. Delights to the eye and ear. The variety of form, the voice(s) and play present in each poem makes for a thrilling journey. This collection does not tread lightly and directly as first books so often do. It tears through, it juggles, it incises & surmises the way that children do--without forsaking fun for intellect. I've rarely been so excited by a book. (And it's visually beautiful to boot.)
Rating: 5
Summary: Versatile, Strange, and Rewarding Poet -- Superb Book
Comment: No two poems in this book are alike. Or so it seems to me. Each page, each title, each poem, each line seems itself invented out of its own original pot or on its own original anvil. It's rather a *weird* experience to read Arielle Greenberg's first book -- because I kept wondering, "Like, how does she DO that?!" This book is a masala of influences, voices, and styles, entirely dialogic and curious. There is freshness on each page. What a gift, this GIVEN!
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Title: All but the Waltz: A Memoir of Five Generations in the Life of a Montana Family by Mary Clearman Blew ISBN: 080613321X Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake by Breece D'J Pancake, James Alan McPherson, John Casey, Andre Dubus III ISBN: 0316715972 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Brothers and Keepers by John Edgar Wideman ISBN: 0679756949 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Animal Soul (Contemporary Classics Poetry series) by Bob Hicok ISBN: 1931229112 Publisher: Invisible Cities Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade by Thomas Lynch ISBN: 0140276238 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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