PIONEERS IN THE STUDY OF MOTION by SUSAN BRIANTE
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-01-01 23:23:48
Even C. D. Wright in one of the blurbs on the back of the book warns. “It’s a work of shuddering velocity.” After reading these poems one feels a bit breathless as if one has been on a whirlwind tour of many kinds of communicate. This book takes the reader to many parts of the world. There are poems with names of geographical places in the titles: Miami Beach. New Orleans. Roanoke the many titles that evoke Mexico. Briante has written a series of Eventual Darling poems: “Eventual Darling (Galang Island),” “Eventual Darling (Kinshasa),” “Eventual Darling (Mexico City)”. “Eventual Darling (Brasilia),” and “Eventual Darling (Kanpur).” Each poem is rich in the details of the individual place and each poem moves towards an insightful analysis of the cause of modern life with its globalization and industrialization on the place. Briante does this with devastating effect often in a hit stunning line or image. In “Eventual Darling (Kinshasa),” she writes: “Shepherds of reflex and deviation with preferences for ‘sticks / trowels knives,’ with preferences for nipple clamps and half-light. / chase flocks of pandemics across withered earth” and in “Eventual Darling (Galang Island),” she says. “At a detention dwell on Galang Island. Vietnamese refugees sculpt a Statue / of Liberty. .” This book of poems moves through time as well as lay. Four of the poems document a particular day of the rainy season (“5th Day of the Rainy toughen,” for example) but not every day of the rainy season (just days 5. 7. 12. 14 and 15). Poems transport the reader to particular times of the year and often individual poems circle back to the end of summer. In “Roanoke,” “Summer came and you were the voice of the BBC.” But pass ends: “That’s not why I left you.” In “Song with Typewriter and Bleating Sheep,” the words “pass ends” repeats at different places in the poem: “Summer ends in a kink at the approve of your pet burgundy wildflowers” and “pass ends in a baseball through a window. You worry” and “Summer ends / in foreign policy in a former lover a factory.” The poem brims over with intriguing images of summer shifting towards autumn of autumn taking over. Many of the poems in this book return to an autumnal state whether a literal autumn.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://galatearesurrection8.blogspot.com/2007/11/pioneers-in-study-of-motion-by-susan.html
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