A Sunny Place with Adequate Water
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| Rating | : | 4.33 (826 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 162557908X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 75 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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"We can hitch a ride to Rockaway Beach" according to Robert Beveridge. Mary Biddinger, A Sunny Place with Adequate Water (Black Lawrence Press, 201We can hitch a ride to Rockaway Beach Robert Beveridge Mary Biddinger, A Sunny Place with Adequate Water (Black Lawrence Press, 2014)I'm not entirely sure what more I can say about Mary Biddinger that I haven't said in my reviews of her previous two full-length books, Prairie Fever and O Holy Insurgency, and her chapbook Saint Monica. This is a good thing, in part, because it should telegraph to you as clearly (and with much less verbiage) that her new book, A Sunny Place with Adequate Water, lives up to the nearly impossible standard she set for herself with that earlier work.“They said it was . )I'm not entirely sure what more I can say about Mary Biddinger that I haven't said in my reviews of her previous two full-length books, Prairie Fever and O Holy Insurgency, and her chapbook Saint Monica. This is a good thing, in part, because it should telegraph to you as clearly (and with much less verbiage) that her new book, A Sunny Place with Adequate Water, lives up to the nearly impossible standard she set for herself with that earlier work.“They said it was . Grady Harp said A new and major collection of poems from Mary Biddinger. Thank goodness for the abundance of poetry coming to our attention, through journals, in eBooks, and anthologies and in books such as A SUNNY PLACE WITH ADEQUTE WATER by Ohio poet Mary Biddinger. There was a time a few decades ago when it seemed that the art of writing poetry was seeming abandoned, yet now here we are in a time of instant social communication and the luxury of reading poetry by poets who know how to distill and make visible and palpable those aspects of being alive, of feeling, of loving, of aching, and exhilaration and of depress. "Her Best Book Yet!" according to John T. Dukes. This collection is Mary Biddinger's most mature and sustained work yet; even this early in the year, it must rank as one of the year's best poetry collections. The poetry here is confident without being arrogant, deeply felt without being the least sentimental, sophisticated in its use of language without being the least bit pretentious. I'm glad I read it; I wish I were in charge of a publishing house and had published it.
In her third full-length collection, A Sunny Place with Adequate Water, Mary Biddinger untangles past from present, through poems preoccupied with gentrification, imaginary coin-operated machinery, and an uncanny doubling of good and wicked selves. Part nostalgia recast as seductive angst, part pastoral (and anti-pastoral), these poems explore small town legends in a landscape of longing, displacement, looming disaster, and unexpected joy.. // Where could they possibly lead us? There wasn't / any magic left in the world, only stray newspapers." The poems of this book hope
Mary Biddinger is the author of the poetry collections Prairie Fever (Steel Toe Books, 2007), SAINT MONICA (Black Lawrence Press, 2011), O HOLY INSURGENCY (Black Lawrence Press, 2013), and A SUNNY PLACE WITH ADEQUATE WATER (Black Lawrence Press, 2014), and co- editor of one volume of criticism: The Monkey and the Wrench: Essays into Contemporary Poetics (University of Akron Press, 2011). . She edits Barn Owl Review, the Akron Series in Poetry, and th
A little surreal, a little nostalgic, Mary Biddinger's remarkable new collection describes the challenge of growing up a nascent artist in a sometimes resistant, but always-clamorous neighborhood. I'm as moved by this book's incisive take on personal history as I was by James Tate's Lost Pilot. -Carmen Giménez Smith. The speaker evolves from a girl who reverses herself "until there wasn't anything left" into someone who wants to live in the burn, and each poem invokes both the visible and invisible mechanisms that uphold a small town