HEROIC MEASURES
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (974 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0814207847 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 96 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-16 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Friends sickened and died, and he had, for a while at least, to be one of the worried well. As much could be said of the poems in the other four parts, concerned with or inspired by gardening; traveling and sight-seeing; stories from the Bible, classical mythology, and the lives of friends; and the aging of the poet's father. As a gay man, Bergman was affected. From Booklist Between Cracking the Code (1985), Bergman's fine first collection, and this, his second, fell the AIDS epidemic. If Bergman doesn't astonish with his intellect, poem after poem is fluent, intelligent, well shaped, and memorable. Ray Olson. Some of the best AIDS literature of any kind, they introduce characters who come alive and tell stories, not all directly about AIDS, that bring the poet and his anxieties to life, too. Out of that experience come the approachable poems about AIDS in this collection's first part
"Great Modern Poetry" according to M. H.. David Bergman's "Heroic Measures" contains beautiful poems about the nature of life and living, that are universal between straight and gay audiences alike. It is poetry without pretension, that accepts itself easily and flows when read aloud. It does not try to outdo itself with meaningless metaphor and aggravating allusion, and instead honestly tells stories. This collection has
Other poems provide an enlightening journey into religion and myth. David Bergman is a professor English at Towson University. He won the George Elliston Poetry Prize for his first volume, Cracking the Code. He is also the author of Gaiety Transformed: Self-Representation in Gay American Literature, which was cited as an Outstanding Book of the Year by both Choice and the Gustavus Myers Center for Human Rights.. In the final section, Bergman turns to his family, with poems about his parents, their aging, and his childhood. "Here's the voice of Mozart's canary, a psychic in crisis, a naturalist stunned by another species more beautiful-and more human?-than our own. A second grouping depicts images of art, giving us glimpses of Goya, Eaki