The Beautiful Routes of the West: Poems - Softcover

Brackenbury, Rosalind

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564741656 ISBN 13: 9781564741653

Publisher: Fithian Pr, 1996

Synopsis

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From Publishers Weekly:

This uneven collection centers around British poet Brackenbury's adopted home in Key West, Fla. Most of the sea poems, many of which appear in the first of the four sections, disappoint with an even perspective that is oddly unlike the shifts of tide that Brackenbury frequently celebrates. A second section moves onto dry land for a tour through Parisian museums and other predictable vacationer's experiences; a fourth offers everyday observations of the human landscape in Key West. Despite flickers of insight and the fresh images stranded in the otherwise lusterless poems in these sections, the third grouping reveals Brackenbury's native poetic sense balanced by her capacity to tease out, and fulfill, the reader's expectations. She is at her best chronicling relationships between women, whether deep or coincidental. In "Tuesday at the Baths," women paddle unselfconsciously, their nipples "crinkled like roses"; in "For My Mother, When Sick," the speaker sees her tiny invalid mother and observes: "some great structure weakens,/ the one I've spent my life in." Such satisfying and humble poems rise well above the tidy declarations and sentimentality of lesser efforts.
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Review:

Ashe Street, March
Ashe Street, November
At Barracuda Keys
August, Key West At The Time Of The Cuban Landings, 1994
Birth
Cape Sable
Closerie Des Lilas
Cobble Island
The Difference
Dream Of The Fathers On Yellow Paper
Everglades Night
Everything In This Area Is Subject To Constant Change.
Existentialist Tennis
Fishing
For My Daughter. Key West Cemetery, Easter
For My Mother, When Sick
Golden Light
Hands
In The Egyptian Rooms, The Louvre, Paris: 1. The Treasurer's Last Jour
In The Egyptian Rooms, The Louvre, Paris: 2. The Gift Of The Egyptian
In The Van Gogh Room. Hay
The Intelligence
Key West Beach Scene
The Mandolin
Mango Days
Memorial Day
No Name
Pink Hibiscus
Satellite Phone To Boat 38
The Sea Race
The Smile
Speaking So Loudly
Storm
Swanage Beach
Sweepng And Salvage
The Ten Thousand Islands
Thanksgiving
Tuesday At The Baths
Valentine
A Writer's House
Year's End Navigations
-- Table of Poems from Poem FinderŪ

About this edition

• Publisher: Fithian Pr
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1564741656
• ISBN 13: 9781564741653
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 79