tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20782819.post5072719479453831561..comments2023-11-12T13:22:30.358+01:00Comments on andrewjshields: DPP7Andrew Shieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02804655739574694901noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20782819.post-28208668241620750122007-05-18T06:18:00.000+02:002007-05-18T06:18:00.000+02:00#45, Seventy Faces, by Richard Chess,gets my vote ...#45, Seventy Faces, by Richard Chess,<BR/>gets my vote this week.<BR/><BR/>-- dhshAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20782819.post-23332592153578797212007-05-17T07:46:00.000+02:002007-05-17T07:46:00.000+02:00I vote for #46, Maurice Manning. Manning is oddly...I vote for #46, Maurice Manning. Manning is oddly, quirkily brilliant. I voted for his first book in the Yale Younger Poets Series, and I heard him read from it and his second book. The poem here isn't as amazing as other things I've heard him read, but it sneaks up on you. The voice is so simply declarative but is speaking of something quite ominous.<BR/><BR/>The other poems this week left me cold. The first one (#43, Bowering, "Central Canadian") was amusing, sorta. The last one (#49, Delanty, "Snow Canticle") was very sentimental. There were a few good lines in Springer's "Blackbird" (#47), but it struck me as silly. The poem by Rick Chess (who I remember from ages ago in Jersey) simply overdoes what could've been a striking poem; the good parts, for me, get buried in the excess (#45, "Seventy Faces"). #44 "Meat Thieves," by Susan Wick is well written but not my cup of meat (neither are dancing kings or making haste). Finally, #48, Sun Yung Shin, "Twin"; yeah, ok, whatever, the "sane went insane" stanza strikes me as very trite.Donald Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06391024449222256377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20782819.post-51619253374515483952007-05-15T18:55:00.000+02:002007-05-15T18:55:00.000+02:00Here's my ranked list (my favorite is at the top):...Here's my ranked list (my favorite is at the top):<BR/><BR/>45. Seventy Faces, by Richard Chess<BR/>46. Where Sadness Comes From, by Maurice Manning<BR/>47. Dear Blackbird,, by Jane Springer<BR/>48. The Vanishing Twin, by Sun Yung Shin<BR/>44. The Meat Thieves, by Susan Wicks<BR/>43. Central Canadian Verse, by George Bowering<BR/>49. Snow and Wind Canticle to an Unborn Child, by Greg DelantyBruce Loebrichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12059122376071341389noreply@blogger.com