Book Logging: Poetry
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the_rckBrock-Broido, Lucie. Trouble in Mind - I mostly liked how these flowed. I stumbled over bits here and there, but overall enjoyed the experience. Well, as much as I enjoy poetry. I'm still figuring out how to appreciate it.
Edgren, Katherine. Transports - Edgren is a Michigan poet, and most of the poems here seem to be set in Michigan, just based on the descriptions (at least one isn't in Michigan, though). The book is only 25 pages long. Most of the poems centralize water, fishing, boating which is very much not my thing, given my reaction to deep water.
Galvin, James. X: Poems - I was able to move relatively easily through the words in these poems. I'm not sure that I gleaned a lot of meaning from them, but I didn't get lost or tangled, and that was kind of relaxing.
Kenyon, Jane. Let Evening Come - I found these poems both prosaic and slippery. I'd feel like everything was ordinary and then also feel like I'd lost my grasp on something unidentifiable. I'm not sure I recommend them. I think they simply didn't work for me.
Levine, Philip. The Mercy - I was kind of meh on these. There was nothing bad about them, but I also didn't feel like I connected to them. Possibly, reading them during a week with five migraines was mistake.
Phillips, Carl. Reconnaissance; Riding Westward; Silverchest; Wild Is the Wind - I read Riding Westward first and liked the poems very much. The words had edges, and I felt emotional hooks in them. There are a lot of threads that are frankly sexual in a way that's both honest and conflicted about desire. I also went and put holds on all of the other books of the author's poetry that the library has.
Zagajewski, Adam. Asymmetry: Poems - I feel like many of the poetry collections I read are saying the same things, over and over, just from different angles. Some work for me; some don't. These did.
Started but not finished:
Brooks, Gwendolyn. Selected Poems - I bounced off of this. I felt like I kept tripping over and bumping into things that I oughtn't be. The poems seemed to be mostly character vignettes, but I didn't get very far, so that might not have been true for the whole book.
Buckley, John F. Sky Sandwiches - I just didn't click with these poems.
Edson, Russell. The Tormented Mirror - I gave up after about 15 poems because the author's particular brand of surreality set my teeth on edge. It might work for someone not-me, but I felt like the sharp edges were in the wrong places to be interesting rather than grating.
Fairchild, B.H. Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest - Everything in these poems feels shadowed and gray in the way that memories manifest as ghosts. I couldn't find my way in well enough to comprehend the details.
Kicknosway, Faye. Who Shall Know Them? - There's dust in these poems and gaps between every person mentioned. No one has names, and no one seems to be happy or even alive. It's just grinding labor. I wasn't ready to deal with more than the twenty five pages I read. I think these would be okay if I read them one at a time with other things between.
Edgren, Katherine. Transports - Edgren is a Michigan poet, and most of the poems here seem to be set in Michigan, just based on the descriptions (at least one isn't in Michigan, though). The book is only 25 pages long. Most of the poems centralize water, fishing, boating which is very much not my thing, given my reaction to deep water.
Galvin, James. X: Poems - I was able to move relatively easily through the words in these poems. I'm not sure that I gleaned a lot of meaning from them, but I didn't get lost or tangled, and that was kind of relaxing.
Kenyon, Jane. Let Evening Come - I found these poems both prosaic and slippery. I'd feel like everything was ordinary and then also feel like I'd lost my grasp on something unidentifiable. I'm not sure I recommend them. I think they simply didn't work for me.
Levine, Philip. The Mercy - I was kind of meh on these. There was nothing bad about them, but I also didn't feel like I connected to them. Possibly, reading them during a week with five migraines was mistake.
Phillips, Carl. Reconnaissance; Riding Westward; Silverchest; Wild Is the Wind - I read Riding Westward first and liked the poems very much. The words had edges, and I felt emotional hooks in them. There are a lot of threads that are frankly sexual in a way that's both honest and conflicted about desire. I also went and put holds on all of the other books of the author's poetry that the library has.
Zagajewski, Adam. Asymmetry: Poems - I feel like many of the poetry collections I read are saying the same things, over and over, just from different angles. Some work for me; some don't. These did.
Started but not finished:
Brooks, Gwendolyn. Selected Poems - I bounced off of this. I felt like I kept tripping over and bumping into things that I oughtn't be. The poems seemed to be mostly character vignettes, but I didn't get very far, so that might not have been true for the whole book.
Buckley, John F. Sky Sandwiches - I just didn't click with these poems.
Edson, Russell. The Tormented Mirror - I gave up after about 15 poems because the author's particular brand of surreality set my teeth on edge. It might work for someone not-me, but I felt like the sharp edges were in the wrong places to be interesting rather than grating.
Fairchild, B.H. Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest - Everything in these poems feels shadowed and gray in the way that memories manifest as ghosts. I couldn't find my way in well enough to comprehend the details.
Kicknosway, Faye. Who Shall Know Them? - There's dust in these poems and gaps between every person mentioned. No one has names, and no one seems to be happy or even alive. It's just grinding labor. I wasn't ready to deal with more than the twenty five pages I read. I think these would be okay if I read them one at a time with other things between.
