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These collected poems, all centered around the uses and abuses of power, form a series of historical narratives drawn from the actual and imaginary past
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No contemporary poet penetrates characters like Ai. The farther they are from her personal experience (Jack and Bobby Kennedy, a priest, a holocaust survivor, the Atlanta child murderer) the more vivid the transformation. Bathed in "a harsh and purifying light/that keeps nothing whole," myth, theology and history rise hot as nightmare through her radical imagination. Battered women's bruises shimmer like stigmata; Joe McCarthy defiles a dead Stalin. Every poem pushes at the boundaries laid down in Cruelty ( LJ 11/15/73) and Killing Floor ( LJ 1/15/79), the two books that established her singular control, an authority so absolute it looks casual. Violence is Ai's natural habitat, but blood, she reminds us, "sanctifies and blesses." Essential for academic and larger public libraries. Rhoda Yerburgh, Adult Degree Program, Vermont Coll., Montpelier
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