Answer by Mark DuCharme reviewed by Mark Wallace

 


I really enjoyed the complex, playful, sometimes impressively contorted rhythms of Mark Ducharme’s recent book of poems,Answer, published by BlazeVox. Those rhythms combine well with the book’s rich and frequently surprising vocabulary. While some lines in the book are bluntly political, more often the poems create a moody and shadowed (yet somehow also deadpan Midwestern) romanticism, one in which clarity of thought and action repeatedly finds itself deflected by misunderstanding and uncertainty.

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Distance by Tom Clark hits the blogs

 

http://vazambam.blogspot.com/2012/05/distance.html

  
VAZAMBAM
Saturday, May 12, 2012
 
Distance
—for Tom Clark 


I must tell you how

Under a clear afternoon sky, 
I sat under an umbrella 
Reading a friend’s book 

Of poems that had traveled 
Halfway round the world 
To end up here— 

In the evening, no umbrella, 
No moon in sight, no need to tell you 
How close the stars were that night.



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Book Information:

· Paperback: 80 pages


· Binding: Perfect-Bound


· Publisher: BlazeVOX [books] 


· ISBN: 978-1-60964-097-2

$16 

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Tom Clark Collection reviewed by Donald Wellman

Sunday, April 29: “Prosodic Intent”

http://immanentoccasions.blogspot.com/2012/04/sunday-april-29-prosodic-intent.html

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http://www.blazevox.org/index.php/Shop/collections/tom-clark-collection-294/

Rambo Goes to Idaho by Scott Abels reviewed at Jacket2

 At the great Jacket2, Tinfish Editor Susan Shultz discusses Rambo Goes to Idaho:

https://jacket2.org/commentary/he-good-he-product-world

In her discussion of empire, race, power, and violence, Shultz writes, "By virtue of his subject position, combined with his politics, Abels cannot assume a position of extremity in either direction. His position is an absurd one, but he has thought his way into that absurdity with a courage different from that of his subject. What his work offers back are the very complexities we are heir to, delivered up not as entertainment for the masses, but for those few of us who read poems. In his 2008 review of the last Rambo movie, A.O. Scott noted that, “the movie does have its own kind of blockheaded poetry.” Abels's poetry is not blockheaded in any way, nor is it particularly cinematic. As work that is neither visual nor violent, it offers us a possible space for meditation, a place from which to contemplate the violence of power, and perhaps another--less entertaining, but more productive--way out of it."

Book Information:

· Paperback: 78 pages


· Binding: Perfect-Bound


· Publisher: BlazeVOX [books] 


· ISBN: 978-1-60964-079-8

$16 

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