Radial Symmetry (Yale Series of Younger Poets)
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| Rating | : | 4.21 (755 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0300169205 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 96 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-10 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Enigmatic and Compellingly Mysterious A bright book, though it has its darker moments, a reader is rewarded by its end. The poem "Masculine/Feminine" is my favorite with it awareness of the French master in the wings. Personal and private, we visit the deserts of the Southwest of the United States. Born of a personal awareness, the book still is enigmatic and mysterious.Allen Hagar. Tedious. Very. Jon Corelis "Yes, I've seen her poetry," says a character in T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party. "Interesting if one is interested in Celia." So many contemporary poetry books remind me of this comment: I don't object to their obvious obsession with the most deeply meaningful personal thoughts and experiences of the writer; what I don't understand is why it should be assumed. Radial Symmetry This book of poetry was excellent. Katherine Larson has a unique style of writing that captures both the eye and the heart. A personal favorite piece was "Oranges in Uganda". My only issue was that the book came bent and wrinkled in the padded envelope package from Amazon. This took away from the beauty of the book and the words inside it.
The result is a profoundly moving collection: eloquent in its lament and celebration.Metamorphosis excerptWe dredge the stream with soup strainers and separate dragonfly and damselfly nymphs-their eyes like inky bulbs, jaws snappingat the light as if the world was full oftiny traps, each hairpin mechanismtripped for transformation. Larson's inventive lyrics lead the reader through vertiginous landscapes—geographical, phenomenological, psychological—while always remaining attendant to the speaker's own fragile, creaturely self. Such a ricochetof appetites insisting life, life, life againstthe watery dark, the tuberous reeds. . An experienced research scientist and field ecologist, Larson dazzles with these sensuous and sophisticated poems, grappling with the powers of poetic imagination as well as the frightful realization of the human capacity for ecological destruction. With Radial Symmetry, she has created a transcendent body of poems that flourish in the liminal spaces that separate scientific inquiry from empathic knowledge, astute observation from sublime witness. Katherine Larson is the winner of the 2010 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition
"Bracingly artful Radial Symmetry marks the arrival of a poet whose work merits many readings."—Alison Hawthorne Deming, Orion