Do read. Although they are fun. The very light which makes the blossom visible also renders it sarcastic, bitter and mean. This is a book I will finish over and over again and immediately restart. Hera Lindsay Bird 4 books followers. And it's not. I listened to her read that poem over and over, crying at the end every time. Rather, it wants to make a kind of metaphorical soup — with a bunch of tenors and a bunch of vehicles swilling around, bumping into each other with little clangs of humour or insight — by force of density more than precision. Long live the funny gothic juggling of Hera Lindsay Bird. I like this picture because it reminds me of loneliness And the great, unspecific boredom of life. But Bird is never those things, in the same way Tennyson is never drily metrical. Write a Review. I absolutely loved this one. Part of that infectiousness comes from their strikingly idiomatic style, characterised by several traits: an informality informal to the point of ritual; short to mid-length declarative sentences, stripped of any formal expression of the strong feelings they describe; a conspicuous lack of lyricism; the deadpanning of great misery and joy.
Subscribe to Blog. Ioana Iorgu. Everything is so devastating and so stupid, and somehow that is all the same thing. This is a book I will finish over and over again and immediately restart. The sheer reach and imaginative variety is striking, but… is that variety part of any form? Help center.
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Lizzie Huxley-Jones. Well, where historically poets have refined their language towards poetic diction and metre — and risked being programmatic and melodically repetitive as a result — Bird refines her language towards an imitation of vernacular usage. It's so hard to do love poetry well, but HLB's love poetry is my favorite kind. Author 1 book 18 followers. She manages to build you an image in your head of every single poem. Write a Review. There are a lot of punishments in this world And some of these punishments look a lot like day to day life Some things cannot be transformed, only endured The moon shining over all of us, with its clean white handrail. Buy on Amazon. Displaying 1 - 30 of 69 reviews. More reviews and ratings. Help center. Cristina Morariu.
Fleurs du Mal Magazine » Hera Lindsay Bird: Pamper Me to Hell and Back (Poetry)
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- This small collection explores what it means to be a young woman, fresh from university and facing the world, in a 21st century packed with screens and no reasons.
Part of that infectiousness comes from their strikingly idiomatic style, characterised by several traits: an informality informal to the point of ritual; short to mid-length declarative sentences, stripped of any formal expression of the strong feelings they describe; a conspicuous lack of lyricism; the deadpanning of great misery and joy. Fame, the moon, meaninglessness. Well, where historically poets have refined their language towards poetic diction and metre — and risked being programmatic and melodically repetitive as a result — Bird refines her language towards an imitation of vernacular usage. But Bird is never those things, in the same way Tennyson is never drily metrical. The other striking formal features are the barrage of similes and the frequent ellipses — both taken straight out of the poems of Chelsey Minnis. The sheer reach and imaginative variety is striking, but… is that variety part of any form? Or the other way round. Probably the other way round. The very light which makes the blossom visible also renders it sarcastic, bitter and mean. This poetry neither needs nor wants to venerate the manufacture of apt metaphysical equivalences. Rather, it wants to make a kind of metaphorical soup — with a bunch of tenors and a bunch of vehicles swilling around, bumping into each other with little clangs of humour or insight — by force of density more than precision. The grand austere aha! We see the same mockery regarding the abandon of being in love when Bird writes. Look at how ludicrous it is to be serious about any of this , the poem thinks. That is, the ability to make a statement and to both mean it very deeply while simultaneously holding it up as an object of mockery.
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Pamper me to hell and back. Fleurs du Mal Magazine
P amper Me to Hell and Back is full of confessional, provocative and occasionally explicit poems, written in a conversational style with a bleak outlook on life. Many of the poems are surreal, whilst some feel more like Facebook posts, and others seem designed to be performed as spoken word. This sets the scene for a collection which is both humorous and disconcerting, light-hearted and satirical. It also reveals the underlying themes of mortality, love and pieluchomajtki panpers 5 relentless monotony of life. This is not the kind of poetry that I normally pamper me to hell and back, and I must admit to being put-off initially by the more explicit and provocative lines, pamper me to hell and back. Perhaps it is the interminable onslaught of surprising almost ridiculous imagery, or the self-deprecating humour that runs throughout. Whatever it is, there is something unique and a little bit addictive in these poems. Other poems seem to be anti-love poems. There are some more straightforward love poems too. I want to get really good at woodwork and go into the forest and cut up some logs and make you a beautiful house to live in.
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Ioana Iorgu. Absurd and overwhelming, but accurate and revealing - just like love is. Often in these poems humour acts as a cover for heartbreak; silliness becomes moving.
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