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Little Elegies for Sister Satan
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Shaped by the poet’s long view of history, these beautiful lamenting poems take sudden bracing plunges into close-up views of our apocalypse
Little Elegies for Sister Satan presents indelibly beautiful new poems by Michael Palmer, “the foremost experimental poet of his generation, and perhaps of the last several generations” (citation for The Academy of American Poets’ Wallace Stevens Award). Grappling with our dark times and our inability to stop destroying the planet or to end our endless wars, Palmer offers a counterlight of wit (poetry was dead again / they said again), as well as the glow of wonder. In polyphonic passages, voices speak from a decentered place, yet are rooted in the whole history of culture that has gone before: “When I think of ‘possible worlds,’ I think not of philosophy, but of elegy. And impossible worlds. Resistant worlds.”In the light of day
perhaps all of this
will make sense.
But have we come this far,
come this close to death,
just to make sense?
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blake_deadly
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“I loved the bulk of the poems and the language/style of it, but near the end especially I feel like it kind of lost the thread?? I'd read it again and want to read more from the author but there were quite a few poems that felt like filler or like they needed some more work”
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“Sighhhhhh. Some caveats. I’m an English teacher. I appreciate poetry. I attempt to read modern poetry (not just the stuff that has already been canonized and is taught to school children). If there are good things out in the universe, I want to experience them.
That being said, I have such a visceral, negative reaction to modern poetry. I don’t get it. I’m an educated person. I’m well-read. But I’m clueless reading poetry like this. Is it meant to be so unfathomable? I read the whole collection and, apart from a few witty lines, I couldn’t tell you anything significant about this poetry collection. Palmer has won plenty of awards. This collection came recommended to me. The reviews seem favorable . . . So I don’t know what gives.
I guess I just like traditional structures and rhythm over prose with enjambments and obfuscating language.
One standout poem for me:
There
I have had poems published in countless journals over the years.
Now, I officially withdraw them.
There, that's better.”
About Michael Palmer
Michael Palmer was born into an Italian-American family in Manhattan in 1943 and has lived in San Francisco since 1969. He has taught at numerous universities in the United States, Europe and Asia, and has published translations from a variety of languages, in particular French, Brazilian Portuguese and Russian. He has been involved in joint projects with many visual artists and composers in the United States and elsewhere and has also served as an artistic collaborator with the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company for close to fifty years. Palmer's honors include two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writer’s Award, a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, the Shelley Memorial Prize from the Poetry Society of America, and he was awarded the 2006 Wallace Stevens Award. In 1999, he was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
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