The Dreamhouse
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In The Dreamhouse, Tom Sleigh's poetry is a medium for both revelation and linguistic invention. The meditative clarity of Sleigh's poems, his ability to range between the plain and high style with complete naturalness of intonation, and the varying and always surprising musical effects he accomplishes in each poem display his unequaled flair for innovation that is never willful or forced but which always works to forward the poems' emotional and intellectual resonances. The Dreamhouse marks Sleigh as one of the most inventive and provocative poets of his generation. Praise for Tom Sleigh: "Through sheer artistry, Tom Sleigh manages to write . . . in a transcendent way, and without appeal to the metaphysical assumptions transcendence usually requires. The Chain . . . floods darkness with brilliant craft."--Gray Jacobik, Boston Globe "Tom Sleigh's second book of poems, Waking, is so fine one can hardly do justice to it in a review. . . . Sleigh is nearly as prodigal with his gifts as Yeats."--Liz Rosenberg, New York Times Book Review
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0226750493
ISBN13:9780226750491
Release Date:November 1999
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:113 Pages
Weight:0.40 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 6.1" x 8.5"
Customer Reviews
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New and Daring, AND Traditional and Precise.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
Tom Sleigh's poetry is shocking and inventive, yet traditional in form. It seems almost a direct challenge to the kitschy "innovations" that some other poets find to be clever. One must read these poems by the line if not by the word: we are dealing with a highly sophisticated craftsman. At the same time, I find that the territory Sleigh incorpoates and makes poetry out of is not "poetical" -- depictions of "the street", direct explorations of the darkest and most terrifying human actions and emotions-- without suggesting easy resolution or reconciliaion. These poems allow us to meditate upon an intensely-felt and glimpsed life-- it is nearly a training program for cultivation of the finer senses-- minus sentimentality and jouissance. Real Bonus: spectral, astrological, sparkling love poems that concurrently have a focus on precise objects and emotions. This book is also a real pleasure for folks who know their Greek mythology.
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