The Rest of the Way - Hardcover

McClatchy, J.D.

3.24

17 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394587286 ISBN 13: 9780394587288

Publisher: Knopf, 1990

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Poems deal with love, friendship, fog, AIDS, the Middle East, nature, violence, anger, and mortality

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From Library Journal:

McClatchy is a deft practitioner of a highly literate formal verse, a master of the resonant detail: "three lines erased in the address book." A daring and unsettling collection, this book contains both "Fog Tropes," a subtle, moving poem about a dying friend, and "Kilim," an improbably successful crown of sonnets about a Middle Eastern terrorist. McClatchy seems tempted to elaborate everything, and a wonderfully ornate musicality ("a foxglove's comb of honeyed canticles") sometimes overpowers. But sharp images (a three-legged cat as "a petition against grace") and wit (Ravel and Stravinsky speaking respectively in flowing sentences and edgy, broken phrases) serve as a tonic. A richly textured and rewarding book by a remarkably accomplished poet.
- Kathleen Norris, Lemmon P.L., S.D.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review:

Achill Island (irish Prospects)
After An Old Text (irish Prospects)
An Alphabet Of Anger
Cysts
An Essay On Friendship
Fog Tropes
Heads
Kilim
The Landing
Medea In Tokyo
An Old Song Ended
Ravel's Insomnia (night Piece)
The Rented House
The Shield Of Herakles
The Spanish Hour
Spenser's Tower (irish Prospects)
Stravinsky's Dream (night Piece)
Weeds
The Window
Zion
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder�

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