BOOKS - Requiem for the Orchard (Akron Series in Poetry (Paperback))
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593145
593145
Requiem for the Orchard (Akron Series in Poetry (Paperback))
Author: Oliver de la Paz
Year: January 1, 2010
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 988 KB
Language: English
Year: January 1, 2010
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 988 KB
Language: English
These are vivid, visceral poems about coming of age in a place 'where the Ferris Wheel was the tallest thing in the valley,' where a boy would learn 'to fire a shotgun at nine and wring a chicken's neck with one hand by twirling the bird and whipping it straight like a towel.' . . . In spite of such hardscrabble cruelties"or because of them"there is also a real tenderness in these poems, the revelations of bliss driving along an empty highway 'like opening a heavy book, letting the pages feather themselves and finding a dried flower.' . . . The poet has a gift for rendering his world in cinematic images. . . . In short, these poems are the stuff of life itself, ugly and beautiful, wherever or whenever we happen to live it. "Martin Espada