Love-In-Idleness
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| Rating | : | 4.84 (668 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B005OTD9GO |
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| Number of Pages | : | 211 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in anthologies of gay poets, persona poetry, and poets of social justice. candidate in English Literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He earned an MFA from Emerson College, and currently is a Ph.D. He was included in the Ploughshares' special "Emerging Writers" edition, and his poetry, interviews, and book reviews have appeared in American Poetry Review
(Did Emily talk about hard labor? Indirectly, yes.) Wise about words and about the world, Hennessy’s poems cut no corners, though they are full of the melancholy wisdom that hides in coverts, closets, hope-chests, crevices, and other concealed places. These poems forget themselves, undulate, embrace the actual, dissolve and regroup in their efforts to detail moments of sustained interruption and desire. Together they announce the arrival of a gifted new voice in American poetry.“If I were to reduce this book to a single letter, it would be O. His prose is also included in DIVAS: Gay Men on the Women Who Shaped Their Lives (University Wisconsin Press). A. Shifting intuitively between youthful belligerence, the individualization of c
PowellChristopher Hennessy's poems yearn for a sense of certainty, feel their way for a foothold that, ultimately, may not be there. --David TrinidadChristopher Hennessy gets the rhythm right, the timbre right, and the heart-sense right. From childhood poems of family and farm (as unsettling, in their vivid realism, as Roethke's greenhouse poems) to persona poems of deep erotic longing, Hennessy maintains an artful and risky determination, in each poem, to understand the need its song speaks. --David TrinidadChristopher Hennessy gets the rhythm right, the timbre ri
A rare find, an exquisite experience I preface this review with the statement that I generally do not read poetry, because I don't know what I'm supposed to do with it. I don't know how to hold it or read it, let alone how to interpret and understand it. When I pick up a book of poetry, I feel like the young boy I was when I first tried to catch a football. It hurt my hands. I swatted at it more than I tried to catch it, and as it spun away on the pavement I determined it just wasn't for me to get. I picked up Lov. Great first book of poetry Joseph Millar Great first book of poetry. If you're a liker of themes, it has everything: the bildungsgedicht, the undermined heroics poem, the familial poem, the appropriated myth poem, the waiters in waiting rooms poem, the love poem & the not-quite-love poem. If you like a lyric with some sonic wanderlust, you'll like this too. It travels.. M-Lee said Love It!. The vivid imagery and layers of subtleties mesh into something I can read again a week later and enjoy even more than the previous reading.