Bad Fame - Poems

Bad Fame - Poems
Author :
Publisher : Able Muse Press
Total Pages : 88
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781927409510
ISBN-13 : 1927409519
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Bad Fame - Poems by : Martin McGovern

Download or read book Bad Fame - Poems written by Martin McGovern and published by Able Muse Press. This book was released on 2015-06-03 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin McGovern’s Bad Fame muses on the perplexities and certainties of the human condition, often in soaring eulogies and searing elegies: as in “The Circle of Late Afternoon” which asks, “Isn’t there an art to giving myself away slowly like wheat opening to the sun?”; or, “Processionalia,” where “a bee/ abandons the tea roses/ and circle that black blossom of/ the widow’s veiled face as if her tears were/ pollen and the bee could feather/ its legs with grief.” Be it lore set in Colorado, or farther out, the personal and regional tributes unravel the universally familiar and pertinent. McGovern's debut collection is the work of a seasoned master in command of craft and themes. PRAISE FOR BAD FAME: Martin McGovern’s long-awaited, well-constructed first book gives itself away slowly, artfully. It is carefully considered, quietly passionate, and deeply humane. —Edward Hirsch There is an unforsaken paradise in these pages, and a lot of ungodly anxiety. . . . Like Dubliners, Bad Fame darkens, deepens, darkens through its sections, understanding with Joyce the tidal pull of place that will never let us survive if we resist the current . . . the “blue snow,” not of Dublin, but of memory, of Colorado . . . this extraordinarily unique McGovern flair for the Keatonish (Buster) aside mixed with lyrical intellection, these poetic rooms with their many blue lights, direct or indirect, for us to turn on as night comes on. —David Lazar (from the foreword) Here are exacting sentences, any number irregularly hugged into the ferocious clusters which are Mr. McGovern’s poems. My likely favorite, “If the Light Could Kill Us,” does heavy duty as a garden unfurled at dawn, the beloved “still sleeping,/ flame-pink welts our love leaves on your almost/ too delicate skin, brazen in this light.” And then the assault of a very different sentence, “Samuel Johnson is dead. And Mrs. Thrale./ And the kind cherub of a straitjacket/ she kept closeted should reason fail/ him thoroughly, where’s that deck-coat now?” followed by other people’s torments inspected so closely that this morning “violence/ lingers like the last touch of a season.” Hence: “Only as I rise to pull the window’s shade/ do you wake, dusted and dazed, as from a fever.” Strong as they are, the sentences, like the centuries, are treated pitilessly, as you can hear, yet there is what the poet calls “the shimmer of a teen movie” throughout. Resilient art, and no loitering. —Richard Howard


Bad Fame - Poems Related Books

Bad Fame - Poems
Language: en
Pages: 88
Authors: Martin McGovern
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-06-03 - Publisher: Able Muse Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Martin McGovern’s Bad Fame muses on the perplexities and certainties of the human condition, often in soaring eulogies and searing elegies: as in “The Circl
Good Bones
Language: en
Pages: 96
Authors: Maggie Smith
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-07-15 - Publisher: Tupelo Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Featuring “Good Bones”—called “Official Poem of 2016” by the BBC/Public Radio International. Maggie Smith writes out of the experience of motherhood,
Keep Moving
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Maggie Smith
Categories: Self-Help
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-06 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The NATIONAL BESTSELLER from the author of YOU COULD MAKE THIS PLACE BEAUTIFUL “A meditation on kindness and hope, and how to move forward through grief.” �
The Hous of Fame
Language: en
Pages: 150
Authors: Geoffrey Chaucer
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 1893 - Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon Press. 1893.

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

I'm Nobody! Who Are You?
Language: en
Pages: 105
Authors: Emily Dickinson
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Scholastic

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A collection of the author's greatest poetry--from the wistful to the unsettling, the wonders of nature to the foibles of human nature--is an ideal introduction