The Day Judge Spencer Learned the Power of Metaphor (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

From the very first pages in this collection, the reader is immersed in a fearlessly detailed, masterfully textured symphony of poems that hold nothing back. Cynthia Schwartzberg Edlow plunges boldly into an unrelenting quest to make sense of a universe that is both beautiful and troubling. Hers is a dauntless journey that reveals–at times painfully, sometimes with humor–a probing spirit with a passion for life, cognizant of its fleeting preciousness. Nimbly in command of a vocabulary ranging from the technically precise to the spontaneously emotional, she produces vibrant poems that captivate the reader with a spirited voice consistently lively, audaciously erotic, and then genteel with sensuality, and with lines crackling of energy that often erupts on the page. The result is a collection of poems that are arresting, urgent in the carpe diem tradition, and unfailingly celebratory. "Uproarious strains" indeed - Cynthia Schwartzberg Edlow has invented a darkly comic, intelligently strange syntax all her own, where the grisly might be ecstatic and law laughter. There are territories here where poetry rarely goes, domestic and bureaucratic spaces ogled anew. Tenderness, too, counts among the sweet surprises. Keith Tuma Early in a poem that is finally about accepting the contradictory qualities of nature, Cynthia Schwartzberg Edlow quotes, with exclamation points, the three features the U.S. Patent Office requires for patents - "New! Useful! Nonobvious!" Taken together, they offer a perfect description of this amazing first book. There is a genuine freshness in Edlow's treatment of narrative throughout, equally unflinching in the Swiftean descriptions of courtrooms and autopsies as in recollections from childhood and family life. "Useful" is often a hard case to make for poems, but here, in addition to close observation, is a quick wit and summarizing intelligence, offering its own contingent wisdoms, tightly packed and portable. But the "non obvious" is Edlow's home, not only amid the strikingly unpoetic business of autopsy and litigation but in all the sudden, unexpected and uniformly rewarding, witty and intrusive turns this poetry takes. Michael Anania