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Beasts and Violins de Caleb Barber

Beasts and Violins

Autor Caleb Barber
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 2010
Beasts and Violins is a collection of American narrative poetry addressing themes of life and work in the western United States.  The poems read like broken country songs sung from a paved farm: dead deer and train trips, a dog at the edge of the fire.  Beasts and Violins begins with a dark birth and finishes at peace on the water, with the necessary stops in between.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781597094696
ISBN-10: 1597094692
Pagini: 104
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Red Hen Press
Colecția Red Hen Press

Recenzii

Caleb Barber’s fortuitous debut onto the American poetry scene strikes me as every bit as consequential and clarifying as those of his recognizable mentors—Spicer, Hugo, Wright and Carver.  Having absorbed them, he’s done what no one could have taught him: given honest and singular voice to the painful extremities of being both beast and violin, brutish and fragile, mired in the flesh, yet bent on not being entirely at its mercy.
      Lorca wrote of the sphinx dropping “a stone roof on the lyrical butterflies.”  Barber’s uncompromising dialogues with the animal side of being human, similarly crushes our illusions, our too pretty notions of ourselves.
      In razor’s edge language, he breaks open the mad harmonica of our unreasonable hungers, our tender fumblings, and our unpredictable natures. What I greatly admire, however, is that he is writer enough to leave us with an uneasy feeling of having been demolished and perhaps not exactly rebuilt—or not anyhow in a lyrical, transformative way, but rather in the solid and fecund way of mushrooms gathered as bounty from sites of decay.
—Tess Gallagher

Caleb Barber currently works in an aerospace machine shop, where he often composes his poems on a clipboard while delivering machined parts.  Some of than rugged heavyweight material can be found in the sounds and rhythms and intentions of his unusual poems.  He also worked in Arizona, Alaska, and Montana—and much of the flavor, fervor, and unflinching eye for realistic detail that readers find meaningful in Richard Hugo’s work can be found here, though Barber is by no means derivative.  For one so young, he has an unusually mature, self-assured and convincing voice that seems to me full of promise.
—David Wagoner

Caleb Barber is a large talent without any time for language that doesn’t strike and haunt. With his raw, chilling voice, Barber resuscitates the American narrative poem—a species dying into the anecdotal—so that it stands up again and sings. This book makes a reader more honest, more unflinching in face of the hard beauties of being alive.
—Katie Ford

Notă biografică

Caleb Barber lives in Bellingham, Washington, where he works days at an aerospace machine shop.  He earned a BA from Western Washington University in English/Creative Writing, and received an MFA in poetry from the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts, based off of Whidbey Island. He has been widely published in literary magazines, most notably with a feature in Poet Lore.  The title poem of this book appeared in Best American Poetry 2009.

Cuprins

I
3          The False Twin
4          Black Omen                
5          Dear Old Dads
6          Old Savage
7          Pace
8          False Eulogy for the Stillaguamish River…
10        Addressing a Month of Guilt, Driving Near the Camano Island Exit of Interstate 5
11        Captain Fidalgo           
13        Craft Island Hunters Wreck the Day
14        Machined Parts to Monroe
15        To the Man Driving I-5 with a Rabbit on His Shoulder
17        Report
18        Breakfast with My Best Friend, Who Otherwise Fried Eggs for Pay
19        Robotic Dawns
20        From the Employee Kitchen
21        The Blue Collar Artist
22        My Boss is a Jewish Carpenter
23        Blue Stilly
24        Tavern Woman
25        Over Breakfast
 
       II
28        For the Topless Girls in the Brewery Gulch
30        The Unofficial Mayor of Bisbee Arizona
32        This Southwestern State
34        What I Liked Best About Living in East Missoula
35        The Buck
36        Into Days Between Snow
38        House on Colorado Avenue
40        What I Could Have Done to East Missoula
41        Trans Wales
42        Horse Drawn Boat
43        Farming in County Sligo, County Leitrim
45        Piebald Birth on Josie’s Makeshift Farm
47        I Went in with My Hands Up
48        Beasts and Violins
50        Camping with Mad, Far from Montana
52        Now that the Brown Pelicans have Flown Elsewhere
54        Past the Cascades
55        In the Morning It’s Evil on the Bedside Table
56        They Couldn’t Even Kill Their Television
57        The Paranoid
 
      III
60        Bellingham’s Favorite Son
61        When I Said
62        What All Foxes Know (Two Ways Out of their Burrow)
63        Teaching the Beasts
64        Small Engines
66        In a Twilight Town
67        An Upstream Tow for an Early Date
68        At the Dedication
70        Lord of Spores
71        A Morning at Adrift
72        Fixed Beasts
73        Heart Lake; or, Poem for the Mistaken Boy
74        Spooky Portrait
75        The Fair Kaleetan, Between Friday Harbor and Anacortes