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Lädt ... Best Barbarian: Poemsvon Roger Reeves
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HTML: Finalist for the 2022 National Book Award for Poetry The poems in Best Barbarian roam across the literary and social landscape, from Beowulf's Grendel to the jazz musician Alice Coltrane, from reckoning with immigration at the U.S.â??Mexico border to thinking through the fraught beauty of the moon on a summer night after the police have killed a Black man. Daring and formally elegant, Best Barbarian asks the reader: "Who has not been an entryway shuddering in the wind / Of another's want, a rose nailed to some dark longing and bled?" Reeves extends his inquiry into the work of writers who have come before, conversing withâ??and sometimes contradictingâ??Walt Whitman, James Baldwin, Sappho, Dante, and Aimé Césaire, among others. Expanding the tradition of poetry to reach from Gilgamesh and the Aeneid to Drake and Beyoncé, Reeves adds his voice to a long song that seeks to address itself "only to freedom." Best Barbarian asks the reader to stay close as it plunges into catastrophe and finds surprising moments of joy and intimacy. This fearless, musical, and oracular collection announces Roger Reeves as an essential voice in Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Personally, I like poetry I don't need to research to understand. I admit I will never keep up with the poetry world to ever be able to follow the threads of what is going on in poetry,
That said, I did have a favorite poem in this book. It does not have a note at the end. It is After the Funeral, in which an adult son at his father's funeral worries if his father's schizophrenia is lurking in himself or in his daughter. It is powerful and full of emotion and feeling--and there is no need for a note and research to make it make sense. ( )