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Songs to Come for the Salamander

Songs to Come for the Salamander

Young, Mark

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1736816047
ISBN13: 9781736816042
Publisher: Magma
Published: Oct 3 2021
Pages: 398
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.82 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Some readers might assume that particular, highly pessimistic generalizations in Young's poems are actually Mark Young presenting his sense of doom. The little ditty democracy registers the claim that no-one// knows the/ words to the song (the concept of democracy) even though every-/ one sings it, and since violence is learned tells us that tolerance is no/ longer available, is replaced by trauma. Although nothing in the poems--not even such affirmations of aesthetic transport as Constant Craving, which speaks of music that acts as/ axis to steady everything around--makes one identify the poet as a bright-eyed optimist, various moments in the work display too much respect for the complexity of cause and effect, limitations of human perception, the transience of trends, and sudden appearances of the unexpected to place sustained credence in large generalizations and foregone conclusions.

from the Introduction by Thomas Fink

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