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Rising, Falling, Hovering (2008)

by C.D. Wright(Favorite Author)

4.22 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1556592736 (ISBN13: 9781556592737)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

Copper Canyon Press

review 1: Wright seems, with this collection of work, to have hit a confident stride. Yet again combining her taste for the lyrical and the vernacular, Wright turns her eye away from her more typical sexual poems and towards contemporary plights. The book focuses on the hardships of war, loss, immigration, etc on the global level, paralleled by their equivalents in the personal sphere. It seems as though through writing these poems Wright is trying to make sense of today's world... to expose the horrors... but also to purge them from herself.
review 2: I adore Wright's work. I read it in big savory shaking gulps. She is, as they say, one of our best poets. And of course all is fair subject matter for poetry and of course these shameful wars are too, but I'm tired of the ... moreeasy trope from Afghanistan and Gulf Wars I and II of a poet who is upset by the news(paper). (NPR?) It seems to compound the shame. We killed all those people and our soldiers raped/got raped; were maimed ... and we're upset by the news. less

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