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Taking Eden: Poems
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ISBN13: 9781889330105
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Published: Jan 1 1997
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.27 Width: 6.05 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Perhaps what's so refreshing about Taking Eden is that it fits into no neat category. There's a sensitivity in it to the natural world, but the phrase 'nature poetry' certainly doesn't apply; many of the poems use a narrative structure, yet 'narrative poetry, ' too, seems inaccurate. The surreal leaves its tracks throughout the book, but they are as delicate as the traces left by subatomic particles in a Wilson's cloud chamber,
Many of the thirty-nine poems in Robert Clinton's first book of poetry, Taking Eden, seem at once autobiographical and universally appealing.-Independent Publisher
'Some days are holidays of silence, ' Clinton writes in 'My Father;' his most introspective and lonely short work owes much to the early Mark Strand. His more narrative poems relate visionary, solitary encounters with bearers of wisdom, frequently father-substitutes but sometimes the speaker's own father, who form an understated lineage: 'The men I know / born in labor all of them // go along the rock / the way I go without / much hesitation.' In 'Treetops, ' a 'son who will remain unborn' finds the poet 'in the shade of the house collecting stones, ' 'he stands up, / pushing the house into the
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