Barbara Helfgott Hyett's new collection considers, from close and
afar, the elemental forces coming to bear on human character in our
time. In one sense a personal explication of a long marriage and
its betrayal, these stunning poems take solace in nature's
steadfastness, and in the prospect of a newly resilient self,
awakened to the predicament of a battered world.
The title poem spills across the face of historya9/11, Hiroshima,
the harrowing geological formation of earth, the sudden appearance
of cave art, and ultimately, the uncertainty of God. The Daphne and
Apollo sequence invents fourteen speakers, including a chisel, a
river god, the sculptor, Bernini, and the poet, Ovid, each telling
his own story as together they deconstruct the longstanding myth of
lust gone awry. Such is the imaginative, kaleidoscopic process of
Rift, in which acts of observation shatter and shift our view of
experience.
While we ache for the loss in these poems, Helfgott Hyett risks
such honest grief that redemption comes, free standing and moral,
on its own.
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