"Pieta
"
This time the migraine came with a vision
bathed in night sweat: your man's body on my lap, legs
and arms white as casein draped over
mine, spilling onto the cassock, new sores
on your legs, dried blood
on your feet and hands,
from your chalk mouth
the words "forgive me,
"from mine, the impossible
"no
"
"Hard Bread,"" "Peg Boyers's debut poetry collection, with verse
spoken in the imagined voice of the Italian writer Natalia
Ginzburg, was widely praised for its inspired ventriloquism and its
brilliant lyricism. In "Honey with Tobacco," Boyers's own intensely
personal voice emerges in three strikingly distinctive variants.
The first part of the book is the most explicitly autobiographical,
bringing together poems that explore the poet's Cuban American
experience and a childhood marked by travel, the tropics, and
varieties of disenchantment. The middle sequence of poems concerns
a mother, a father, and a son, a postmodern holy family whose
ordeals are evoked in a terse, terrifying narrative. In familiar
tableaux drawn from the Bible that have inspired great works of
art--the Annunciation, the Pieta, and Judgment Day--Boyers explores
what it means in contemporary America to be "blessed among women"
and whether and how art can contain grief. The final section of the
book confronts age, desire, and regret in a series of personal
poems that plumb baser human instincts and the speakers'
determination to dwell in darkness, when necessary, without
abandoning the sacred.
Praise for "Hard Bread":
"A great achievement of poetic voice . . . . It's absolutely clear
what these poems are 'about, 'and they are unapologetic in their
devotion to subject, clarity, precision, and
accessibility."--Steven Cramer, "Poetry"
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