Matthew Sweeney's tenth collection of poems is as sinister as its
dark forebears, but the notes he hits in "Horse Music" are lyrical
and touching as well as disturbing and disquieting. Confronting him
in these imaginative riffs are not just the perplexing animals and
folklorish crows familiar from his earlier books, but also magical
horses, ghosts, dwarfs and gnomes. Central to the book are a group
of Berlin poems - introducing us to, among things, the birds of
Chamissoplatz who warn of coming ecological disaster, or the horses
who swim across the Wannsee to pay homage to Heinrich von Kleist in
his grave. Many poems in the book range freely across the borders
of realism into an alternative realism, while others stay within
what Elizabeth Bishop called 'the surrealism of everyday life' -
such as a tale about Romanian gypsies removing bit by bit an
abandoned car. "Horse Music" is not only Matthew Sweeney's most
adventurous book to date, it is also his most varied, including not
only outlandish adventures and macabre musings, but also moving
responses to family deaths - balanced by a poem to a newborn,
picturing the strange new world that will unfold for her. That
strange world unfolds for us too in the eerie poems of Horse Music.
Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
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