A Several World
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.50 (780 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1937658171 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 111 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-29 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Landscape here is spatial theater and, blowing through like new weather, a choreography recruits certain standalone selves: solidarity beginning in an erotics of attunement, catching likenesses. Blanchfield is a talent to watch.” —John Ashbery. The wish to be out of the weeds, to imagine one can see the thing in whole, and, conversely, the wish to be overseen, even to be overlooked, further animate the poetic shuttling between late pastoral and conceptual project. “Pick me up can also be as frequency and antennae do.”“The oneness of our physical and spiritual life has rarely been conveyed more accurately. As in the title phrase—borrowed from a 17th century poem by Robert Herrick—in which “several” is used to individuate, questions of singularity and the plural, of subjectivity and the collective, pervade this dream-quick poetry. In A Several World there are glimpses of an “us down here”—in a city state, in a valley town, in an open clearing, in the understory—and, by various projections, there is frequent attainment of an aerial vantage, a supervisory perspective
“This clever, busy, anxious, flirtatious poet, with his ‘predilections for predicaments,’ can connect anything to anything else."—Stephen Burt, The New York Times Book Review
Fails to "separate from the rummage" David Anthony Sam When you try to condense your critical opinion of a collection of poems to a number of stars, you realize the inadequacy of ratings.I admire much of Brian Blanchfield's ambitious and generous collection. He has a gift of the short and pungent phrase, epigrammatic without being obvious. His language has echoes of the lusciousness