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A New School of Design

Thomas Zemsky

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Description:Poetry. "It's what is familiar in dreams / that is full strange, / as any child will tell you, / I too am unbidden/ & aspire to digress." There are poets who describe the world, a great many of them; but far fewer are the poets who create worlds. Tom Zemsky is one of those, and masterfully so. The dedication to his latest collection announces his "Metaphor is poetry enough." Using metaphor as his raw material, he constructs dreamlike poems, "full strange," that strangeness deriving from "what is familiar," fragments of the everyday we recognize in new and unexpected places, rather like finding a bit of ancient stonework recycled in a wall along a country lane. And what wonderful digressions he offers, including a kaleidoscope of possible Shakespeares ("Shakespeare the sous chef or Shakespeare the snake handler... / Shakespeare able to pull Shakespeare out of a hat"), or imagining Emily Dickinson as a "devotee of heroin / her kit / kept neatly / on a doily...." "I just try to write / like I have the DT's", he declares in "Drinking Song," "really a concoction / of inexhaustible ingredients / I have no choice in taking...." But while he may claim no choice in the taking, there is ample evidence of his choices in the making of these poems, the assurance in the placement of each word. His wonder at the world indeed appears childlike, as in his response to the discovery that he had left a purchase back at the "How like money/ To change hands like that. / I thought I was going out to buy something / for the evening meal / instead of participating in magic." Zemsky's poems reveal that we are always and everywhere participating in magic, if only we will recognize it. His closing poem bathes the reader in "That Kind of Moonlight" which inspires all manner of dreaming, from the "coolly hysterical predicament / caught in Kafka's pen" to the "churned ecstasy" of Jackson Pollack's paintings--"babies bring out their most improbably syllables / for that kind of moonlight...." Zemsky conjures his most improbable, and most delightful, syllables out of it as well. Let us be glad of his digressions.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A New School of Design. To get started finding A New School of Design, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 64

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Broadstone Books

Release: 2020

ISBN: 1937968677

Description: Poetry. "It's what is familiar in dreams / that is full strange, / as any child will tell you, / I too am unbidden/ & aspire to digress." There are poets who describe the world, a great many of them; but far fewer are the poets who create worlds. Tom Zemsky is one of those, and masterfully so. The dedication to his latest collection announces his "Metaphor is poetry enough." Using metaphor as his raw material, he constructs dreamlike poems, "full strange," that strangeness deriving from "what is familiar," fragments of the everyday we recognize in new and unexpected places, rather like finding a bit of ancient stonework recycled in a wall along a country lane. And what wonderful digressions he offers, including a kaleidoscope of possible Shakespeares ("Shakespeare the sous chef or Shakespeare the snake handler... / Shakespeare able to pull Shakespeare out of a hat"), or imagining Emily Dickinson as a "devotee of heroin / her kit / kept neatly / on a doily...." "I just try to write / like I have the DT's", he declares in "Drinking Song," "really a concoction / of inexhaustible ingredients / I have no choice in taking...." But while he may claim no choice in the taking, there is ample evidence of his choices in the making of these poems, the assurance in the placement of each word. His wonder at the world indeed appears childlike, as in his response to the discovery that he had left a purchase back at the "How like money/ To change hands like that. / I thought I was going out to buy something / for the evening meal / instead of participating in magic." Zemsky's poems reveal that we are always and everywhere participating in magic, if only we will recognize it. His closing poem bathes the reader in "That Kind of Moonlight" which inspires all manner of dreaming, from the "coolly hysterical predicament / caught in Kafka's pen" to the "churned ecstasy" of Jackson Pollack's paintings--"babies bring out their most improbably syllables / for that kind of moonlight...." Zemsky conjures his most improbable, and most delightful, syllables out of it as well. Let us be glad of his digressions.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A New School of Design. To get started finding A New School of Design, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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