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Synopsis
A second anthology of poetry by the author of A Jump Start explores a rich, emotionally charged world of meditations on love, myth, transformation, metamorphoses, sexual and social politics, and dislocation.
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Review
James Lasdun coedited the After Ovid anthology-- in which contemporary poets put their personal spins on various passages from Ovid's Metamorphoses--so it's no surprise that his own poetry displays an Ovidean penchant for lightning-like transformation. Sometimes these metamorphoses are literal. In "Oxblood," for example, an ancient King Charles oak sickens, nearly dies, and finally undergoes a miraculous resurrection: "and like the stick / That blossomed when it stirred Medea's potion, / The tree burst into leaf again so thick / Its namesake could have hidden in its crown." Elsewhere, Lasdun pays heed to more fanciful quick-change acts. Take the policewoman he encounters in an elevator, who evokes
that supposedly arousing
Rebus of pain and desire, the uniformed woman,
Whether as Dietrich in epaulettes,
Or armored like Penthesileia, or in thigh boots
And cocked hat, straddling the Atlantic,
Fishing for campesinos
With live torpedoes...
With its rapid shifts in diction, casual wit, and intermingling of classics and camp (not to mention campesinos), the latter passage showcases at least a few of Lasdun's poetic strengths. But it takes a deeper immersion in Woman Police Officer in Elevator to get a sense of his linguistic agility and shape-shifting intelligence.
About the Author
James Lasdun is the author of The Horned Man and Seven Lies, as well as six collections of poetry. He teaches creative writing at Columbia University and The New School and lives in upstate New York.
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- PublisherW W Norton & Co Inc
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0393040437
- ISBN 13 9780393040432
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages80
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