Copperdome Chapbooks
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In the Little House "There are books that leave us, once we have turned the last page, with a
soft, clear tone that overrides ideas or emotional impressions. It is the music
of grief and desire, when grief and desire have become indistinguishably joined.
Jenn Habel's In the Little House is such a collection. 'No one told me it
would be so impersonal . . .' says its speaker, 'my charge/ to be her globe,
then station, / then something in a warm wind. . .' How beautiful a book that so
embodies its subject matter, an emptiness from which children are born and poems
imagined. How difficult a resolution to release a child in small increments, a
world whose loveliness can only move continuously away. Habel's poems are the
little houses of that world: in which first memories and first words are right
now being made."
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Published January 2009 |
Back of the Envelope From Okinawa to Vietnam to the marital bed, these poems pack a punch—and a caress. Military and domestic battlegrounds are viewed close up, through the unsparing eye of a photographer. And yet these poems fairly bristle with restrained emotion. These are decent, honorable poems, and under them all is a fine music that makes the grief more bearable." —Barbara Goldberg
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"With 'dark swollen words and shifting air,' Matthew Nienow builds poems as if building boats, 'each strip like a tree's growth,' and 'asking the question rivers are always asking: why?' From Nienow I am grateful to have learned that poetry 'is movement with one desire: to pull at whatever it touches.' There is much talk these days of the importance of a poet's voice. But here we have proof that a poet's ear…for music, for complexity, for 'the prodigal aria returning home'…is just as important." —Todd Boss |
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