Radish King - Softcover

Rebecca Loudon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0976659344 ISBN 13: 9780976659341

Publisher: Ravenna Press, 2007

Synopsis

Rebecca Loudon's second collection of poems frequently finds itself "On the Delirious Track," fascinated by "that lovely erotic flaw / (the importance of the lopsided)." And if her poems are disorienting and confusing, which they can be, their humor, rhythm, surprise, and obsessive repetitions can be mesmerizing.

About this title

About the Author

Rebecca Loudon lives and writes in Seattle.

Review

Loudon's language works with a sense of mystical urgency; in places, these poems are deeply personal at the same time that they are archetypically relevant, offering an interior (but not exclusively private) sense of how the world looks.... But vision is not the only and primary sense here this poet also wants to blindfold you, turn you, and walk you onto a boat to leave you sitting there, rocking and smelling the ocean. Faceless men will interfere or help in your doings, and you will have sharp metal, fur, and animals placed in your hands. Jesus appears a few times as raconteur and whiny bother. --Rebecca Weaver for Rain Taxi

Reading Radish King is like entering another world where familiar landmarks no longer appear, and memory of this world is suspended. Here, beauty is menace, and menace elation. Deft, ruthless, often wickedly funny, Loudon's poems lean inward toward a mysterious grace. --Cynthia Huntington

Loudon's ability to evoke emotion while keeping the reader in a sense of surreal, suspended out-of-timeness, her ability to balance the strange and the familiar, and her grace when it comes to employing the musicality of language succeeds where many experimental or post-avant-garde poets fail by leading the reader to experience a connection to each of her narrators. --Jeannine Hall Gailey

Edition details

• Publisher: Ravenna Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0976659344
• ISBN 13: 9780976659341
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 111