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Lädt ... Heavenly Bodiesvon Cynthia Huntington
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. This offering from my old college professor Cynthia Huntington is a well-above-average collection of spiky contemporary free verse. Somewhat startlingly, Professor Huntington's poetry bristles with explicit sexuality and harrowing depictions of drug use; there's a kind of feral Sylvia Plath as rock'n'roll burnout stranded in the rural wastelands of the American outback feel to it. The centerpiece of Heavenly Bodies is a long poem called "Shot Up in the Sexual Revolution: The True Adventures of Suzy Creamcheese," a feminist countercultural coming-of-age fable that exploits the iconography of the hippie dream -- all that macramé and army fatigues and communal vegeteratian chili -- without, quite, tipping over into cliché. It's as smart and funny as any poetry about the Sixties that I've read. Other poems, such as the haunting "House Gone to Hell" show the darker side of the anticline, with its "stale breath" and "terrible thirst." ( ) Cynthia Huntington's "Heavenly Bodies" is poetry at its rawest. She writes in the Whitmanian tradition, with very little metaphor and with images that are presented directly to the reader. Where Whitman's poems focus on America grappling with the pain of the Civil War and its aftermath, Huntington focuses on raw, personal, painful, emotions. Here are poems about abandonment, abduction, and abuse. Here are poems that make no apologies for their subject matter, which represent someone who has been beaten down so far, withdrawal has become their modus operandi. These are difficult poems to read because of their rawness. The imagery was awkward with the first reading, but the more I read, the more I understood how she could reach the point of using the imagery she did. At heart this is an unsettling book of poetry that I wish could hide some of its harshness behind metaphor. Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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National BookAward Finalist 2012 In this blistering collection of lyric poems, Cynthia Huntington gives an intimate view of the sexual revolution and rebellion in a time before the rise of feminism. "Heavenly Bodies" is a testament to the duality of sex, the twin seductiveness and horror of drug addiction, and the social, political, and personal dramas of America in the 1960s. From the sweetness of purloined blackberries to the bitter taste of pills, the ginger perfume of the Hawaiian Islands to the scream of the winter wind, Huntington s fearless and candid poems offer a feast for the senses that is at once mystical and earthy, cynical and surreal. Echoing throughout are some of the most famous and infamous voices of the times: Joan Baez and Charles Manson, Frank Zappa and Betty Friedan. Jinns and aliens beckon while cities burn and revolutionaries thunder for change. At the center is the semiautobiographical Suzy Creamcheese, sensual and rebellious, both almighty and powerless in her sexuality. Achingly tender yet brutally honest, "Heavenly Bodies" is an unflinching reflection on the most personal of physical and emotional journeys. "Univeristy Press Books for Public and Secondary Schools" 2013 edition Finalist for the "National Book Award" in Poetry, 2012" Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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