Stricter Means Selected Earlier Poems Allen Hoey 9780979668463 Books
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Stricter Means presents a selection of poems drawn from four earlier collections, as well as a sampling of uncollected poems and previously published translations. Deeply grounded in nature and rooted in spirituality both Eastern and Western, these poems range across a world composed of backyard vistas, jazz-club haze, and Old World landmarks. Forms include sonnets, syllabics, blank verse and free, "never straying far," as Robert McDowell noted in The Hudson Review, "from an anchoring pentameter or tetrameter line." Whether lyric, monologue, or narrative, the poems rarely miss the elegiac note of Hoey's erotics of loss. This is a stupendously deep, wide net of poetry that covers almost 30 years of experience and insight gained working in the meat factories, farms, rail yards, and colleges of the American Dream. It is a sea of dark turbulence with brightly luminescent islands of meaning scattered just out of reach within all directions and across all time; a search for the being which is within all meaning even where our commercial words fail us. This is the poetry where we live...the last half empty bottle glowing amber beyond the bar at closing time; the red oak that stands alone at midnight in a clearing before the meadow; the country music washing up from between old car radiators to fill the spaces between stars; and the yearnings of the flesh. This is poetry from the fires that burn within us that are smoldering too deeply to be acknowledged in polite conversation, and I like it a lot because it is those fires that keep us alive. -Jared Smith, Looking into the Machinery and Grassroots
Stricter Means Selected Earlier Poems Allen Hoey 9780979668463 Books
Are you weary of the Ho-Hum School of Poetry?---you know, those hundreds of sleek and smartly hip volumes churned out every year? Oh, the poems are smart, clever,contemporary, the forms "open," and the subjects treated with the usual mix of
mostly suburban angst. Many of them are, in truth, pleasant enough, and reading them is akin to sucking on a mint: not too tart, not too sweet; comfortably
somewhere in the middle. But mints, even the mildest, wear very thin after one or
two or three, leaving your mouth unpleasantly aromatic and sticky. Well, if you
are weary of it all, then Stricter Means is the book for you. Allen Hoey has
given us a gift: a selected poems that lives up to its name in that every poem
chosen has heft in every sense---deeply intelligent, strict in its homage to
both tradition and the new, unsparing in its attention to form and poetic craft,
and, in short, stubbornly allergic to and the opposite of fluff. Stricter Means
is, in its range of subject, its philosophical speculation, and its mastery of
both the narrative and the lyric, magnificent. In "The Things of August," the
opening poem, Hoey asks, "What Angel presides at this turning?" We might well ask
the same as we turn one amazing page after another. Only, we know. For this is
Allen Hoey, and this is a book replete with praise for both a world lived in and
worlds remembered. Praise it. Buy it today.
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This is a stupendously deep, wide net of poetry that covers better than 40 years of experience and insight gained working in the meat factories, farms, rail yards, and colleges of the American Dream. It is a sea of dark turbulence with brightly luminescent islands of meaning scattered just out of reach within all directions and across all time; a search for the being which is within all meaning even where our commercial words fail us. This is the poetry where we live...the last half empty bottle glowing amber beyond the bar at closing time; the red oak that stands alone at midnight in a clearing before the meadow; the country music washing up from between old car radiators to fill the spaces between stars; and the yearnings of the flesh. This is poetry from the fires that burn within us that are smoldering too deeply to be acknowledged in polite conversation, and I like it a lot because it is those fires that keep us alive.
Are you weary of the Ho-Hum School of Poetry?---you know, those hundreds of sleek and smartly hip volumes churned out every year? Oh, the poems are smart, clever,
contemporary, the forms "open," and the subjects treated with the usual mix of
mostly suburban angst. Many of them are, in truth, pleasant enough, and reading them is akin to sucking on a mint not too tart, not too sweet; comfortably
somewhere in the middle. But mints, even the mildest, wear very thin after one or
two or three, leaving your mouth unpleasantly aromatic and sticky. Well, if you
are weary of it all, then Stricter Means is the book for you. Allen Hoey has
given us a gift a selected poems that lives up to its name in that every poem
chosen has heft in every sense---deeply intelligent, strict in its homage to
both tradition and the new, unsparing in its attention to form and poetic craft,
and, in short, stubbornly allergic to and the opposite of fluff. Stricter Means
is, in its range of subject, its philosophical speculation, and its mastery of
both the narrative and the lyric, magnificent. In "The Things of August," the
opening poem, Hoey asks, "What Angel presides at this turning?" We might well ask
the same as we turn one amazing page after another. Only, we know. For this is
Allen Hoey, and this is a book replete with praise for both a world lived in and
worlds remembered. Praise it. Buy it today.
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