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In the Present Tense
Myrna Stone
其他書名
Portraits of My Father
出版
White Violet Press
, 2013-03-25
主題
Poetry / General
Poetry / American / General
ISBN
0615776515
9780615776514
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=efpTmwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Myrna Stone, the author of The Casanova Chronicles, a memorable sequence that is one of the best long poems in recent years, has moved from Casanova to her own father-and chronicled the texture of a relationship as well as the texture of a mind gone to ruin. These conversational sonnets demonstrate the elasticity of a form devoted to love; Stone also shows us that some of our greatest love stories are not the ones we expected.
~ Kim Bridgford
Myrna Stone's "In the Present Tense" is a powerful work-not just because it chronicles the last, difficult years of her very elderly father ( in first class sonnets), but because of the sweep she achieves in documenting the orbit of all those involved: from family members to other assisted living patients. It's a breadth that only the best writers can acheive-sadness, yes, but also wisdom, fortitude, love, and even humor. As one of the sons whispers to his fading father, remembering the father's love of fishing: "Dad, it's time to catch the big one"-so does Myrna Stone catch what it's really like to deal with these tragic circumstances, and who continues to show why poetry, and her poems, are absolutely necessary.
~ Tim Suermondt
