Songs from a Mountain
Autor Amanda Nadelbergen Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 mai 2016
"Amanda Nadelberg's poems . . . are jumping, funny, romantic, and frequently lyrical….which in the immediate reading is almost pure music."—Ken Tucker, Entertainment Weekly
From "Matson":
So what patent reason is there to doubt
the color of a person's hair, there is sun
and timpani. Rubber wood bone silk
hemp or ivory I will cut my own in June
but in May endured the next yesterday
I've already now forgotten what all the
men I'll ever know smelled like. Maybe
devotion on the beach in the middle of
the week which is dumbed down with
planets imagining song.
From "Matson":
So what patent reason is there to doubt
the color of a person's hair, there is sun
and timpani. Rubber wood bone silk
hemp or ivory I will cut my own in June
but in May endured the next yesterday
I've already now forgotten what all the
men I'll ever know smelled like. Maybe
devotion on the beach in the middle of
the week which is dumbed down with
planets imagining song.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781566894340
ISBN-10: 1566894344
Pagini: 112
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Coffee House Press
Colecția Coffee House Press
ISBN-10: 1566894344
Pagini: 112
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Coffee House Press
Colecția Coffee House Press
Recenzii
“[Songs from a Mountain is] a wild, careening, conceptually wily (yet somehow ruly) book that refuses to keep its feet on the ground. . . . Through the de- and recontextualization of what was first familiar and is now strange, Nadelberg establishes herself as an exemplar of early 21st-century artistic practice.” —Publishers Weekly
“Nadelberg’s smart, delightful, deliberately disorganized third book at once carries forward the rangy, nonlinear oddity of her second…and recovers the stellar charm of her debut.” —American Poets
“Many folks read poets for their voices, and Nadelberg’s is delightful.” —Philadelphia Inquirer
“Songs from a Mountain is not only a collection of one poet’s expression and search for newness in the world, it is a reminder that writing, and poetry in particular, is not stagnant.” —Heavy Feather Review
“The act of reading these verbal experiments both pleasantly trips us up and trips a thinking switch that illuminates exciting new poetic territory.” —Booklist
“Reading the poems in Amanda Nadelberg’s Songs from a Mountain is like rappelling from the roof of a very tall apartment building — each poem acts as a small glimpse through the window of a brief moment of time in someone’s life.” —Bustle
“Amanda Nadelberg’s poetry resembles a city where all kinds of things are happening at once, some of them funny and others pretty scary. The quasi-epic ‘Matson’ takes the form of a swarm. Suddenly words, thousands of them, have accrued to this particular subject; no one knows why. Its mass is almost frightening but good to be with. Songs from a Mountain is a dizzying achievement that rings out loud and precise and clear.” —John Ashbery
“Nadelberg…surfs the sonic currents of contemporary language and stands in the back rush of a period spent observing.” —Dallas Morning News
“Boldly modern and powerful.” —Largehearted Boy
“I used to think of Amanda Nadelberg as basically a narrative poet. She invents characters and tells stories about them. A more discerning reader might have noticed the restless, playful spirit of linguistic experiment that is the most obvious feature of the surface of her poems, but in previous outings this energy was in harness to the tale she was telling.
Maybe she’s still a narrative poet. But in Songs from a Mountain, rhetoric runs wild. Narratives are condensed into small unities–epithets, comparisons, puns–held together by the lowly comma splice in lines of no more than two margins but sometimes as many as four caesural pauses. To characterize the complexity, richness, and surprise of this poetry, it would be appropriate to invoke Crane’s ‘logic of metaphor,’ and that should give you a sense of how rare a mixture this is.
Done well? Yes, please. Given a choice, I prefer to see something done well rather than poorly, and this volume skillfully does a kind of work that most of us have forgotten how to do. Well done, Nadelberg.” —Aaron Kunin
“Nadelberg’s smart, delightful, deliberately disorganized third book at once carries forward the rangy, nonlinear oddity of her second…and recovers the stellar charm of her debut.” —American Poets
“Many folks read poets for their voices, and Nadelberg’s is delightful.” —Philadelphia Inquirer
“Songs from a Mountain is not only a collection of one poet’s expression and search for newness in the world, it is a reminder that writing, and poetry in particular, is not stagnant.” —Heavy Feather Review
“The act of reading these verbal experiments both pleasantly trips us up and trips a thinking switch that illuminates exciting new poetic territory.” —Booklist
“Reading the poems in Amanda Nadelberg’s Songs from a Mountain is like rappelling from the roof of a very tall apartment building — each poem acts as a small glimpse through the window of a brief moment of time in someone’s life.” —Bustle
“Amanda Nadelberg’s poetry resembles a city where all kinds of things are happening at once, some of them funny and others pretty scary. The quasi-epic ‘Matson’ takes the form of a swarm. Suddenly words, thousands of them, have accrued to this particular subject; no one knows why. Its mass is almost frightening but good to be with. Songs from a Mountain is a dizzying achievement that rings out loud and precise and clear.” —John Ashbery
“Nadelberg…surfs the sonic currents of contemporary language and stands in the back rush of a period spent observing.” —Dallas Morning News
“Boldly modern and powerful.” —Largehearted Boy
“I used to think of Amanda Nadelberg as basically a narrative poet. She invents characters and tells stories about them. A more discerning reader might have noticed the restless, playful spirit of linguistic experiment that is the most obvious feature of the surface of her poems, but in previous outings this energy was in harness to the tale she was telling.
Maybe she’s still a narrative poet. But in Songs from a Mountain, rhetoric runs wild. Narratives are condensed into small unities–epithets, comparisons, puns–held together by the lowly comma splice in lines of no more than two margins but sometimes as many as four caesural pauses. To characterize the complexity, richness, and surprise of this poetry, it would be appropriate to invoke Crane’s ‘logic of metaphor,’ and that should give you a sense of how rare a mixture this is.
Done well? Yes, please. Given a choice, I prefer to see something done well rather than poorly, and this volume skillfully does a kind of work that most of us have forgotten how to do. Well done, Nadelberg.” —Aaron Kunin
Notă biografică
Amanda Nadelberg: Amanda Nadelberg is the author of Bright Brave Phenomena (Coffee House Press), Isa the Truck Named Isadore (Slope Editions), and, most recently, a chapbook called The Bartleby Poems (The Song Cave). She lives in Oakland.
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Descriere
Panoramic narratives made from imaginary forms, daily commutes, circuits of walks—invitations to a new sense of memory and scale.