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Title: |
Apostrophes VI |
| Sub-title: |
open the grass |
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| By (author): |
E.D. Blodgett |
| ISBN10-13: |
0888644205 : 9780888644206 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
165x165x5mm |
| Pages: |
80 |
| Weight: |
.110 Kg. |
| Published: |
University of Alberta Press - September 2004 |
| List Price: |
16.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 8 |
| Subjects: |
Poetry : Poetry by individual poets : Ethnic studies |
| In Apostrophes VI, E.D. Blodgett returns to his acclaimed series to invite the reader to open the grass-to open the book of creation and consider its wisdom. In 66 tightly, yet eloquently-often beautifully-structured lyric poems, Blodgett embraces the natural world as one bound to meaning by majesty and wonder. These poems are messages declared to an absence-a dialogue with the missing. Searching not only for an absent "you" but for "the absent place / of everywhere" (Flowered). Searching for "words to find you as you are and not / as I have dreamed you in these fragments" (Fragments). "The subject matter is as old as poetry itself, the formal discipline exemplary; yet this is exquisitely contemporary verse." -Susan Rudy |
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The poem "Spring" is featured in Legacy's spring 2005 issue.
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"I reviewed E.D. Blodgett's An Arc of Koans last year, and have decided that it must speak well of Blodgett's versatility that the poems included in open the grass (both are part of his apostrophes series), are so different in manner. Picture broad, page-wide paragraphs (in a square-format book) threaded with long, sinewy, wistful sentences. The former volume was made up of diminutive riddle poems, evoking impressions more in what they do not say than in what they make explicit. These poems work just as interestingly from the other direction, from the side of prolix extension and operatic accumulation. The thematic furniture is outsize - stars, sky, trees, moon, sea, silence, and of course fields and fields of grass - but they are handled so lightly and dreamily that the poems seem like so many snowglobes with their two or three primary elements falling in a soft flurry of words." Jeffery Donaldson, University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol 75, No.1, Winter 2006
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"Where much of contemporary formally innovative poetry unstructures conventional syntax, these poems seek an ancient, traditional, and highly rhetorical syntax in lengthy compound-complex sentences full of twists and turns of focus and desire..Where much of contemporary formally innovative poetry unstructures conventional syntax, these poems seek an ancient, traditional, and highly rhetorical syntax in lengthy compound-complex sentences full of twists and turns of focus and desire." -- Douglas Barbour, Canadian Book Review Annual, 2005.
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