Synopsis
A critically acclaimed poet explores the parallels between riot-torn Los Angeles and Prague, the crux of the newly divided Czechoslovakia, reflecting on the nature of divisions--ethnic, cultural, and political--in resonant, delicately crafted verse.
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James Ragan Is the director of the Graduate Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California.
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The jacket copy informs readers that Ragan was inadvertently caught in the center of two cultural explosions-Prague when Czechoslovakia revolted against Soviet domination in 1968 and the 1992 Los Angeles riots. There's also a flashback to the Watts riots of the Sixties. Yet the most important elements missing from these poems are energy and immediacy. Pompous and presumptuous, his Prague poems betray a tourist sneering at tourists. The poet lives in Southern California, so we turn to the Los Angeles poems in hopes they'll be more insightful. Instead we find cliches. From a reflection on the Pacific Ocean, "a whale dives up/to branch the shores of memory extinguished in our hearts." These are "selfish" portraits: the poems carry dedications, lives are cryptically described (facilitating recognition by family and friends), then laid on the page like stagnant, uncaptioned pictures. There is no movement, and consequently no emotion. Not recommended.
Rochelle Ratner, formerly Poetry Editor, "Soho Weekly News," New York
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