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Requiem for the Orchard

Requiem for the Orchard

de la Paz, Oliver

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Series: Akron Series in Poetry (Paperback)

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ISBN10: 1931968748
ISBN13: 9781931968744
Publisher: University of Akron Press
Published: Mar 1 2010
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.20 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
These are vivid, visceral poems about coming of age in a place 'where the Ferris Wheel / was the tallest thing in the valley, ' where a boy would learn 'to fire a shotgun at nine and wring a chicken's neck / with one hand by twirling the bird and whipping it straight like a towel.' . . . In spite of such hardscrabble crueltiesor because of themthere is also a real tenderness in these poems, the revelations of bliss driving along an empty highway 'like opening a heavy book, / letting the pages feather themselves and finding a dried flower.' . . . The poet has a gift for rendering his world in cinematic images. . . . In short, these poems are the stuff of life itself, ugly and beautiful, wherever or whenever we happen to live it. Martin Espada

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