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Astonishing First Collection
2007/5/11
形式:ペーパーバック
From the first word, "Music from Words" will tear your lungs out. You read about a three year old playing with language, and then the narrator spirals out into "Later, like Marcus Aurelius / observing models of human behavior / we watched the ducks glide away / after the bread was gone." After a long day, I don't actually reach for poetry by a knee-jerk instinct, but this book is well beyond poetry as confession: is also philosophy, psychology and the protest songs of a poet who destroys war (The Dreams of Old Men, and Ghost) and the affectations of class (Staff Meeting Minutes). It's love (Yes and Know), art (Afternoon on the Island), history (Hugo Speaks to Himself and Emmy Speaks to Hugo), mathematics (Pascal's Triangle) and a kind of eloquent prayer (Schoenberg's Second Conversion) sifted through the poet's lens like light through a crystal.
A lot of his work is an incisive portrayal of the emotional state of his characters, and he always circles back to an uplifting insight about the human condition or an image that makes you lose your breath in its beauty. So even though Sylvia Plath "thought about what she thought they thought" and you feel for the moment that the poet sees you through - we end up "washing ashore / with golden fish in an unknown land" and we are brought back through language to this moment of encompassing beauty. At the risk of a too-long post, I have to say I loved this book. Fantastic read.
A lot of his work is an incisive portrayal of the emotional state of his characters, and he always circles back to an uplifting insight about the human condition or an image that makes you lose your breath in its beauty. So even though Sylvia Plath "thought about what she thought they thought" and you feel for the moment that the poet sees you through - we end up "washing ashore / with golden fish in an unknown land" and we are brought back through language to this moment of encompassing beauty. At the risk of a too-long post, I have to say I loved this book. Fantastic read.
2 人中、1人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
A Rare Find
2007/5/12
形式:ペーパーバック
I just read a collection of poetry that I loved and wanted to post my thoughts on it. It's an amazing discovery that I heartily recommend: "Music from Words" by Marc Jampole.
The music of this collection derives from inventive wordplay and rhythmic stylings. Jampole embraces the rhythms of life and music, and avid jazz fans will perhaps recognize familiar themes. It's musical in the way that you used to expect poetry to be musical, and yet it's also plain that Jampole is having fun with the intricate psychological challenges of contemporary culture.
I think poetry lovers as well as general readers will quickly warm to "Music from Words". What's most admirable about this collection is that it accomplishes so much at once: Its moments of simple truth are carefully balanced with moments of sensory beauty. These, in turn, are enhanced by flights of philosophical departure.
I give Bellday Books a lot of credit for investing in a writer who thoroughly departs from Confessionalism (in "Music", the poet is rarely the speaker) and who returns to many traditional elements of poetry: exploration of language for both sound and function, philosophy, and work that is never art for art's sake. "Music from Words" is a rare find.
The music of this collection derives from inventive wordplay and rhythmic stylings. Jampole embraces the rhythms of life and music, and avid jazz fans will perhaps recognize familiar themes. It's musical in the way that you used to expect poetry to be musical, and yet it's also plain that Jampole is having fun with the intricate psychological challenges of contemporary culture.
I think poetry lovers as well as general readers will quickly warm to "Music from Words". What's most admirable about this collection is that it accomplishes so much at once: Its moments of simple truth are carefully balanced with moments of sensory beauty. These, in turn, are enhanced by flights of philosophical departure.
I give Bellday Books a lot of credit for investing in a writer who thoroughly departs from Confessionalism (in "Music", the poet is rarely the speaker) and who returns to many traditional elements of poetry: exploration of language for both sound and function, philosophy, and work that is never art for art's sake. "Music from Words" is a rare find.
3 人中、1人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
Curious Book that Works
2007/5/11
形式:ペーパーバック
I've found a gem of a book from a new, small press that really works. If you've read Marc Jampole's "Music from Words" I'd love to hear your thoughts.
This book covers a clear cycle that takes the reader from an initiation into a pantheon of thinkers and artists who have had an impact on the 20th century to increasingly more abstract efforts, finally tied together with a moment of protest. I credit Jampole for hoodwinking me as a reader with the easier, more immediate poems early on. I was able to meet and see into Dada artists, a cameo of Eliot (in style), whiz-kid Lenny Ross (in 7 voices) and a modern-day Moses, before moving toward a meditation on something as compellingly elemental as water. The book is shocking in its range, but Jampole pulls it off gloriously, playing each of his roles well - even when he riffs into a protest section. It is no exaggeration to say that "Dreams of Old Men" is equal to some of the best protest songs from the 1960s. "Ghost" is just harrowing.
"Music from Words" is studded with lines that seize you. Take, for example, "It's good to know the rain will fall / many times again before I die" or "Instead I counted heartbeats and there were twelve / and I made my song."
For those lines and for the beauty of the collection itself, this is an ideal book for the college or high school classroom; indeed, it offers a key in the back to some of the more referential poems. I liked reading it initially without the key and then considering it a second time. Doing so, I came to the understanding that "Pascal's Triangle" was more than a play with words; it actually mirrors the original work. In that way, I think that the Gifford-Joycean version of literature is updated with this collection. There's just enough telling to tease you into the experience, and then you read it a third time and you have something personal to take with you. That's the mark of a great book of poetry: with each revisited poem you come closer to understanding something new about the world and about yourself as a reader, and as a human being.
This book covers a clear cycle that takes the reader from an initiation into a pantheon of thinkers and artists who have had an impact on the 20th century to increasingly more abstract efforts, finally tied together with a moment of protest. I credit Jampole for hoodwinking me as a reader with the easier, more immediate poems early on. I was able to meet and see into Dada artists, a cameo of Eliot (in style), whiz-kid Lenny Ross (in 7 voices) and a modern-day Moses, before moving toward a meditation on something as compellingly elemental as water. The book is shocking in its range, but Jampole pulls it off gloriously, playing each of his roles well - even when he riffs into a protest section. It is no exaggeration to say that "Dreams of Old Men" is equal to some of the best protest songs from the 1960s. "Ghost" is just harrowing.
"Music from Words" is studded with lines that seize you. Take, for example, "It's good to know the rain will fall / many times again before I die" or "Instead I counted heartbeats and there were twelve / and I made my song."
For those lines and for the beauty of the collection itself, this is an ideal book for the college or high school classroom; indeed, it offers a key in the back to some of the more referential poems. I liked reading it initially without the key and then considering it a second time. Doing so, I came to the understanding that "Pascal's Triangle" was more than a play with words; it actually mirrors the original work. In that way, I think that the Gifford-Joycean version of literature is updated with this collection. There's just enough telling to tease you into the experience, and then you read it a third time and you have something personal to take with you. That's the mark of a great book of poetry: with each revisited poem you come closer to understanding something new about the world and about yourself as a reader, and as a human being.
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