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First Walk after Cancer. New ugly house (too big) with girl on porch cradling lacrosse stick; a Spanish lady, lost? Speaking Spanish to Bluetooth in her ear; tied rods of rebar webbing a bridge under repair; dude in red shorts, running-Hey, it's not that warm! no red wheelbarrow; white chick of seductive frame; ruined snow, wet street; sun meeting my face like a brother in a hospital room; laborers from China in hard hats and uniforms traversing embassy foundation, just a giant hole; Israeli grounds next door, cordoned off with cable, cameras at all corners; cops in car across the street, 7-Eleven coffee cooling on the hood; lost glove in bare tree; blue jay; my favorite shoes: green lights everywhere, seen, if not understood. At the heart of Joshua Weiner's new book is an extended poem with a bold political dimension and great intellectual ambition. It fuses the poet's point of view with Walt Whitman's to narrate a decentered time-traveling collage about Rock Creek, a tributary of the Potomac that runs through Washington, DC. For Weiner, Rock Creek is the location of myriad kinds of movement, streaming, and joining: personal enterprise and financial capital; national politics, murder, sex, and homelessness; the Civil War and collective history; music, spiritual awakening, personal memory, and pastoral vision. The questions that arise from the opening foundational poem inform the others in the collection, which range widely from the dramatic arrival of an uncanny charismatic totem that titles the volume to intimate reflections on family, illness, and dream visions. In "The Figure of a Man Being Swallowed by a Fish", Weiner has discovered a new poetic idiom, one that is stripped down, rhythmically jagged, and comprehensively philosophical about human limits.
"Song"
"The World's Room" is a dynamic first collection in which the
literary and the personal, the elevated and the slangy, the sacred
and the profane are beautifully intertwined. From nursery rhymes to
riddles to prose poems, Joshua Weiner's work displays boundless
imaginative and linguistic possibilities.
Maverick gay poetic icon Thom Gunn (1929-2004) and his body of
work have long dared the British and American poetry establishments
either to claim or disavow him. To critics in the UK and US alike,
Gunn demonstrated that formal poetry could successfully include new
speech rhythms and open forms and that experimental styles could
still maintain technical and intellectual rigor. Along the way,
Gunn's verse captured the social upheavals of the 1960s, the
existential possibilities of the late twentieth century, and the
tumult of post-Stonewall gay culture.
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