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In Waves

Nancy Botkin

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Description:In Nancy Botkin’s stirring lyric sequence, In Waves, the world is split down the center of what is, and what could be. Then language itself, the cavalry of the imagination, rides in to attempt to save the day, by creating romantic fictions that supplant the past. In this, the sequence succeeds some of the time; but the poems are so urgently rendered, so darkly funny (even surreal), so clever in their use of personae (third and first person are both present here as agents of the self), that the struggle itself becomes Botkin’s victory. One wants to say these poems are epigrammatic, but each short lyric swells on the page and in the mind. The deeper we read into this work the clearer it becomes the implications of reality’s tougher truths, and hard-fought realizations of the self are what we were after all along. “I couldn’t get enough,” Botkin’s speaker says, of having a body, of remembering everything, of living; but what a joy now to rise above it all in language, to hold experience up to the light, to fail so gorgeously at changing the past while succeeding so absolutely at making it all worthwhile.—David Dodd LeeWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with In Waves. To get started finding In Waves, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 29

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: March Street Press

Release: 2009

ISBN: 1596611219

Description: In Nancy Botkin’s stirring lyric sequence, In Waves, the world is split down the center of what is, and what could be. Then language itself, the cavalry of the imagination, rides in to attempt to save the day, by creating romantic fictions that supplant the past. In this, the sequence succeeds some of the time; but the poems are so urgently rendered, so darkly funny (even surreal), so clever in their use of personae (third and first person are both present here as agents of the self), that the struggle itself becomes Botkin’s victory. One wants to say these poems are epigrammatic, but each short lyric swells on the page and in the mind. The deeper we read into this work the clearer it becomes the implications of reality’s tougher truths, and hard-fought realizations of the self are what we were after all along. “I couldn’t get enough,” Botkin’s speaker says, of having a body, of remembering everything, of living; but what a joy now to rise above it all in language, to hold experience up to the light, to fail so gorgeously at changing the past while succeeding so absolutely at making it all worthwhile.—David Dodd LeeWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with In Waves. To get started finding In Waves, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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