The Dream of a Common Language, (Paperback)

from jonfaith

I read this collection in two sittings, several months apart. The opening salvo was difficult, deftly constructed and potentially militant. The tome was placed aside and my interests went elsewhere.This morning, with its megamoon and balmy 0F temperatures saw me grasp it again from my kit bag. I ...

from jonfaith

I read this collection in two sittings, several months apart. The opening salvo was difficult, deftly constructed and potentially militant. The tome was placed aside and my interests went elsewhere.This morning, with its megamoon and balmy 0F temperatures saw me grasp it again from my kit bag. I ...

from HadriantheBlind

Wow. This is Real Poetry. Raw and beautiful emotion and tragedy. I felt rather embarrassed to be reading some of these - just from the sense of intimacy that they portrayed, I felt as though I was an ugly intruder upon that.Copied almost all of these down. Power, the 21 love poems. Now to decide ...

from MatthewHittinger

"Twenty One Love Poems" was a pivotal sequence for me, especially as I grew to understand why I tend to write in sequences. I spent the month of December that year transcribing one poem each day, rewriting and retyping each word to really inhabit what she had done on the page.

from wealhtheowwylfing

Personal favorites: "Transcendental Etude," and "Twenty-one Love Poems"