The Drowned Girl (Wick Poetry First Book) by Eve Alexandra

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By Eve Alexandra

infrequent in any age is figure which includes a ardour for adventure, a dedication to fact, a capability to plumb the irrational, and a fluency in poetic language and tune that can paintings via these types of tangled thickets, yet Eve Alexandra does simply that this is often precise poetry; it instantly takes its position as a player within the giant historic voice which composes poetry, a voice which includes ten-thousand tones, yet which takes not anything till itself which does not resonate, as do the poems of The Drowned lady, with authenticity and fervor. C. ok. Williams, pass judgement on. one of many issues i locate compelling approximately Eve Alexandra's poems is that, whereas the narrator is seductive and lovely, she isn't wonderful. She doesn't supply convenience. She isn't really form of solicitous. Like Ariel, who plays the tempest for Prospero, Alexandra, too, is a tempest-res: those are the storms and drownings of her personal invention. Like Ariel's bedeviling and lovely tunes composed to tease the sad, those are poems of the taunt and tease, the razor within the apple. Lynn Emmanuel. anything vivid and reflective, anything lucid and exacting flickers on the middle of this fleshy, unique debut. Is it a needle? Is it a scalpel? Is it a scythe? Is it the switchblade a lady may possibly hold in her handbag? Eve Alexandra wields a young, sharp honesty. The strains reduce and cube, arc and glimmer within the mild of her lyricism and intelligence. those poems will open you, make you bleed, make you ask yourself. Terrance Hayes

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