The View from Saturn: Poems
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| Rating | : | 4.76 (677 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0807157228 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 120 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-08 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Alice Friman's poems dance between these two vantage points, asking the important questions: What does it all mean, and what have we become, standing in the midst of the destruction we've wrought by "watching the unthinkable going on"?With dark humor and lyric honesty, The View from Saturn provides both a telescopic and microscopic look at ourselves, exploring how in our smallness and perhaps foolishness we are still capable of attaining a measure of nobility.. The View from Saturn endeavors to look at the earth and our life on it from two perspectives at once: objectively, as if from a great distance, and subjectively, focusing in on the body with all its cells and hungers
She breaks rules, breaks them with flair and frankness. Alice Friman's voice can be witty, coruscating, gentle, exhilarated, eloquent, street smart, or wise. I (and many others, I believe) consider Friman one of the best poets writing today. --Kelly Cherry . She brings to her work the authority of experience, which allows her to say things usually left unsaid. Lines in her poems are often refreshed by jazzed rhythm and electrically exact diction
Published in fourteen countries and anthologized widely, her past work includes four chapbooks and five full-length collections of poetry. She is currently poet-in-residence at Georgia College.. Alice Friman, born in New York City, is professor emerita of English and creative writing at the University of Indianapolis
Ed Codish said This is great poetry. The volume. It is hard to believe that I could buy so much pleasure, knowledge, mastery of language and sound and music for a few dollars. This is great poetry. The volume, and Alice Friman's poetry in general, could be the starting point for a debate on what is wrong with American audiences, audiences that ignore the greatness about them.. Five Stars This is a wonderful book. Full of sharp insights and soothing emotional intelligence.. View from Saturn poems Excellent reading. Alice is fantastic intellectual poet.