Sentences and rain

Sentences and rain

Elaine Equi

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Subjects
American poetry > 21st century.
Published
Minneapolis : Coffee House Press 2015.
Language
English
Main Author
Elaine Equi (author)
Edition
First edition
Item Description
Poems.
Physical Description
90 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN
9781566894210
  • Machine generated contents note: Spontaneous Generation
  • Cardboard Figures in a Landscape
  • In Black and White
  • If I Have Just One Word
  • The Dark Age of Summer
  • Umbrella Photo Poems
  • Sentences and Rain
  • Royal Feathers
  • Numeric Values
  • Cut to the Chase
  • Jaillight
  • Yo y Tu
  • In Search of the Lost Diminutive
  • Slight
  • Dear Martyr
  • Let's Do Lunch
  • Shoulder to the Grindstone
  • Murmur and Motion
  • Dear Ovid
  • Pathos
  • A Story Begins
  • Games of Medieval Sadness
  • Imbibing
  • A Blue Humming
  • A Date with an Undertaker
  • The Dizzy Staircase
  • Reznikoff's Clocks
  • Time Traveler's Potlatch
  • Higher Power
  • Distant Relatives
  • The Honeycomb of Sleep
  • The Ones You Meet on the Way Up
  • Ode to Distraction
  • Repetition and Duration
  • The Repairman
  • Black Bag
  • Vanilla Orchids
  • Darkness Adds Beauty
  • Do You Think a Photocopy of a Snowflake Is More Beautiful than the Original?
  • Something's Coming
  • Varieties of Fire in Hilda Morley
  • Three Unrelated
  • Restaurant Art
  • Caught in a Downpour
  • Get In
  • Library of E
  • Library of
  • Some
  • Metallic
  • Scrabble with the Illuminati
  • Blue Jay Way
  • Bardo Boulevard
  • C'mon, Really This Is Bullshit
  • Trees Rehearsing
  • The Courtyard
  • Backward Glance
  • The Lives of Statues
  • Better Is Better than Not Better
  • Happy Birthday, Doc!
  • Resounding
  • Zukofsky Revision
  • Becomes
  • A Medium-Rare Serenade
  • Serial Seeing
  • Literary Lipsticks
  • Haiku Centos
  • Bill Brandt
  • Phantom Anthem
  • The Winner
  • McCabe & Mrs. Miller
  • Pegasus
  • Muffin of Sunsets
  • I Never Seem to Arrive
  • By the River of White Noise
  • Stationary Yet Adrift.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Equi (Click and Clone) relishes the stark, overlooked beauty of the quotidian in her curious, winding, fanciful 13th collection. The book is a "slinky cylinder of spirals/ leading to an escape hatch in the sky," its circuitous and plainspoken poems endlessly unfolding upon an expansive plane of strange new ideas and images. Equi makes room for "things both ordinary/ and sublime," and as "one thing is always in the process// of overtaking another," moments of joy await each twinge of sadness. Her "carefree, short-sleeved/ sorrow" may be the unavoidable result of being so attuned to the totality of her surroundings, but there is equal evidence of a steadfast love for the world, particularly "the excess of the story-that which it cannot contain." In an effort to catalogue everything, Equi works on the "repositioning/ of the old line," hoping that the "New compartments created" will help adequately capture these multifarious experiences. While some poems feel like experiments that don't quite work, the majority possess that quintessential Equian magic and epigrammatic concision: "Soothing because they put you/ someplace impossible to locate." Equi's imagery and turns of phrase are strong as ever, and readers will be swept away in the deluge, able to "witness the Rapture/ and still make it home in time for dinner." (Oct.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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Review by Library Journal Review

These 75 lighthearted poems are reminiscent of William Carlos Williams, whose work is referenced in several instances. In one poem, he's the good doctor. Another, written to celebrate his birthday, alludes to lines from "The Red Wheelbarrow." And a third, "Literary Lipsticks," a cento composed of lines from various poems, begins with references to two of Williams's. Equi, short-listed for Canada's Griffin Poetry Prize for Ripple Effect, includes several other centos as well as two epithalamiums (poems written to celebrate a wedding) and several near-haiku. The poems mix clichés with metaphors and play with the thought sparks generated by fusing them, as in "Ode to Distraction" ending with "One says: 'I love you to distraction,'/ meaning, in a way, I can't stand/ to actually see or think of you." VERDICT If you can imagine it, you can probably find it here in one of Equi's lists of objects both real and surreal. There's the robot scarecrow, the bluebird gargoyle, the roman candles, the gypsy eyes, the vanilla orchid, the snowflake, and the photocopy of the snowflake. Equi asks: Which of those last two items do you consider more beautiful? Then she provides her own mostly satisfying answer. For most poetry collections.-C. Diane Scharper, Towson Univ., MD © Copyright 2015. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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