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Washita

New Poems
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ISBN-13:
9781550176773
Veröffentl:
2014
Einband:
EPUB
Seiten:
80
Autor:
Patrick Lane
eBook Typ:
EPUB
eBook Format:
Reflowable EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:

Following the success of his award-winning memoirThere is a Season (2004) and his bestselling novelRed Dog, Red Dog (2008), Patrick Lane felt his celebrated poetry career might be at an end and published hisCollected Poems in 2011. But the process of revisiting his collected poetic works rekindled his first love and launched him on a new phase of poetry composition that resulted in this impressive and distinctive new book.

Honest and self-awareWashita evokes some of the most inexpressible experiences a human being can undergo: the loss of a parent, the breakdown of a body, the perversion of nature, the acquiring of wisdom. In "Hard-Rock," a boy begins to understand that his father will die: "His lungs created elaborate cathedrals from quartz dust, / a crystal symphony playing Mahler under water." In "Submission," a speaker struggles with losing his sight, capable only of expressing himself through metaphor. But amid this darkness sparks an awareness of the artistry of the world: "Vete a la mierda, hijo de puta! / Hate is beautiful in Spanish."

As might be expected from a seventy-five-year-old poetWashita is reflective in tone, exploring all facets of the poet’s own life as well as those others his has touched. Introducing a new style employing medium-length, end-stopped lines, terse diction and concrete imageryWashita has a solidity and mastery that marks it as a new highlight in Lane’s distinguished career.
Following the success of his award-winning memoirThere is a Season (2004) and his bestselling novelRed Dog, Red Dog (2008), Patrick Lane felt his celebrated poetry career might be at an end and published hisCollected Poems in 2011. But the process of revisiting his collected poetic works rekindled his first love and launched him on a new phase of poetry composition that resulted in this impressive and distinctive new book.

Honest and self-awareWashita evokes some of the most inexpressible experiences a human being can undergo: the loss of a parent, the breakdown of a body, the perversion of nature, the acquiring of wisdom. In "Hard-Rock," a boy begins to understand that his father will die: "His lungs created elaborate cathedrals from quartz dust, / a crystal symphony playing Mahler under water." In "Submission," a speaker struggles with losing his sight, capable only of expressing himself through metaphor. But amid this darkness sparks an awareness of the artistry of the world: "Vete a la mierda, hijo de puta! / Hate is beautiful in Spanish."

As might be expected from a seventy-five-year-old poetWashita is reflective in tone, exploring all facets of the poet’s own life as well as those others his has touched. Introducing a new style employing medium-length, end-stopped lines, terse diction and concrete imageryWashita has a solidity and mastery that marks it as a new highlight in Lane’s distinguished career.

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