Collected here are sixteen essays on poets and poetry, the writing life, and a host of fascinating topics that come into the wide range of Marianne Boruch’s attention. She examines how the imagination works with mystery and surprise in a variety of poets from Elizabeth Bishop to Theodore Roethke, from Russell Edson to Larry Levis, from Walt Whitman to Eavan Boland. Combini Collected here are sixteen essays on poets and poetry, the writing life, and a host of fascinating topics that come into the wide range of Marianne Boruch’s attention. She examines how the imagination works with mystery and surprise in a variety of poets from Elizabeth Bishop to Theodore Roethke, from Russell Edson to Larry Levis, from Walt Whitman to Eavan Boland. Combining a richly associative personal style with original insights on poetic texts and historical and cultural musing, Boruch considers how the atomic bomb changed William Carlos Williams’s deepest ambition for poetry, and how Edison’s listening, through his famous deafness, informs our sense of the poetic line. Other essays explore how the car—its danger and solitude—helps us understand American poetry or how Dvorak and Whitman shared darker things than their curious love for trains. Poetry transforms, changing over time in the work of individual poets as well as changing us as we read it or write it. Boruch’s writing has a musical, incantatory style, creating a mood in which many of her subjects are immersed. Her approach isn’t meant to fix or crystallize her ideas in any hard and fast light, but rather to present the music of her thinking.
In the Blue Pharmacy: Essays on Poetry and Other Transformations
Collected here are sixteen essays on poets and poetry, the writing life, and a host of fascinating topics that come into the wide range of Marianne Boruch’s attention. She examines how the imagination works with mystery and surprise in a variety of poets from Elizabeth Bishop to Theodore Roethke, from Russell Edson to Larry Levis, from Walt Whitman to Eavan Boland. Combini Collected here are sixteen essays on poets and poetry, the writing life, and a host of fascinating topics that come into the wide range of Marianne Boruch’s attention. She examines how the imagination works with mystery and surprise in a variety of poets from Elizabeth Bishop to Theodore Roethke, from Russell Edson to Larry Levis, from Walt Whitman to Eavan Boland. Combining a richly associative personal style with original insights on poetic texts and historical and cultural musing, Boruch considers how the atomic bomb changed William Carlos Williams’s deepest ambition for poetry, and how Edison’s listening, through his famous deafness, informs our sense of the poetic line. Other essays explore how the car—its danger and solitude—helps us understand American poetry or how Dvorak and Whitman shared darker things than their curious love for trains. Poetry transforms, changing over time in the work of individual poets as well as changing us as we read it or write it. Boruch’s writing has a musical, incantatory style, creating a mood in which many of her subjects are immersed. Her approach isn’t meant to fix or crystallize her ideas in any hard and fast light, but rather to present the music of her thinking.
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Heather Gibbons –
Marianne's voice is one to trust. I particularly enjoyed the craft essays "Line and Room" and "Poetry's Over and Over," and "Poets in Cars" is very smart and wise and will give you plenty to think about, even if you're a non-poet. Her reading of Russell Edson, "Edson's Head" was less successful for me, I guess because I didn't think the essay contained nearly as many revelations or fresh insights as some of the others. I love Edson, and was perhaps most interested in this essay when I originally Marianne's voice is one to trust. I particularly enjoyed the craft essays "Line and Room" and "Poetry's Over and Over," and "Poets in Cars" is very smart and wise and will give you plenty to think about, even if you're a non-poet. Her reading of Russell Edson, "Edson's Head" was less successful for me, I guess because I didn't think the essay contained nearly as many revelations or fresh insights as some of the others. I love Edson, and was perhaps most interested in this essay when I originally perused the collection, so maybe my expectations were too high? Regardless, an enjoyable and intelligent collection.
Erin Malone –
I like Boruch's own poems, and I liked her essays in this book: thoughtful, personal and scholarly without being stuffy. I like Boruch's own poems, and I liked her essays in this book: thoughtful, personal and scholarly without being stuffy.
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