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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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Growing Up Chicago (Paperback)
David Schaafsma, Lauren Dejulio Bell, Roxanne Pilat; Samira Ahmed, Dhana-Marie Branton, …
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R732
Discovery Miles 7 320
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Growing Up Chicago is a collection of coming-of-age stories that
reflects the diversity of the city and its metropolitan area.
Primarily memoir, the book collects work by writers who spent their
formative years in the region to ask: What characterizes a Chicago
author? Is it a certain feel to the writer's language? A narrative
sensibility? The mention of certain neighborhoods or locales? While
the authors represented here write from distinct local experiences,
some universals emerge, including the abiding influence of family
and friends and the self-realizations earned against the background
of a place sparkling with promise and riven by inequality, a place
in constant flux. The stories evoke childhood trips to the Art
Institute of Chicago, nighttime games of ringolevio, and the giant
neon Magikist lips that once perched over the expressway, sharing
perspectives that range from a young man who dreams of becoming an
artist to a single mother revisiting her Mexican roots, from a
woman's experience with sexual assault to a child's foray into
white supremacy. This book memorably explores culture, social
identity, and personal growth through the eyes of Chicagoans,
affirming that we each hold the ability to shape the places in
which we live and write and read as much as those places shape us.
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