Poetry. The series of poems in Maxine Chernoff's WITHOUT are
elegiac brushstrokes, each somewhat feathery and brushing in more
than one direction, which creates tension and unexpected arrivals
as well as departures: someone or something is missing. Parts of
the world are wavering and parts have disappeared. What remains is
treated in the subtle management of the lines without a hint of
punctuation, which allows for "waves" of attention, as meaning
rises and subsides. The emotional impact is powerful, as are the
recognitions, such as "when darkness loses / its waiting mirror /
and tuning forks / stand in for solace" and "readers asleep /
mouthing their dreams / fears of whispering / become a creed /
until life blurs / like any lens / that fails at attention."
There's a sense of meaning passing with the solidity and darkness
of time."The protagonist of these fifty brilliantly condensed
elliptical poems never feels sorry for herself: she knows only too
well that 'no currency / buys your / erasure.' And she can even
smile at the thought that 'maybe you'll freeze / trying to forget /
how things were / before they weren't....' Indeed, one thing Maxine
Chernoff is never without is an unfailing tact--a dazzling
inventiveness that distances the pain and transforms it into verbal
pleasure. As in Emily Dickinson's lyric, 'After great pain a formal
feeling comes.'"--Marjorie Perloff
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