National Poetry Series: Scriptorium : Poems (Series #1) (Paperback)

from elenchus

Jacket copy & blurbers primed me for an emphasis on theological concepts, perhaps especially Scholastic. These poems didn't have that perspective, rather hinted at disappointment, as though my frustrated expectation was itself the intended topic. The oblique argument is evoked most particularly i...

from fuzzy_patters

I had some issues with this one. The early poems like "Verdigris" and "A Skiff of Snow" were great. After awhile, Range's poetry started to all seem the same. She is from East Tennessee, and she really doesn't like religion. She likes to use medieval imagery or biblical imagery to express this. R...

from DonnaMarieMerritt

I thought some poems were well-written: "Ofermod"; "Fortunes of Men"; "To Swan"; "Crooked as a Dog's Hind Leg"; "The Giant's Sword Melts"; "Regionalism"-and my personal favorite, "Nicodemus Makes an Analysis." Overall, though, I couldn't see where Ms. Range was going with many of the poems. At le...

from erlenmeyer316

In art there is a somewhat contentious divide between "high art" and "folk art." I don't know if such a corollary exists in poetry, but if so I definitely fall into the "folk" camp. I'm not trained in poetry and I'm not the best at reading it either, but I've grown to love it in the past few year...

from fields.steph

Scriptorium was a National Poetry Series winner, chosen by Tracy K. Smith. That name doesn't mean much to me currently but she's a Pulitzer Prize winning poet that I intend to look into further. Scriptorium combines Appalachia with ancient manuscripts and Christianity into 32 relatively short poe...