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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811
EAN: 9780060084721
ISBN: 0060084723
Label: Ecco
Manufacturer: Ecco
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: March 01, 2003
Publisher: Ecco
Release Date: March 04, 2003
Studio: Ecco
Features:- ISBN13: 9780060084721
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Jorie Graham's collection of poems, Never, primarily addresses concern over our environment in crisis. One of the most challenging poets writing today, Graham is no easy read, but the rewards are well worth the effort. While thematically present, her concern is not exclusively the demise of natural resources and depletion of species, but the philosophical and perceptual difficulty in capturing and depicting a physical world that may be lost, or one that we humans have limited sight of and into. As she notes in "The Taken-Down God": "We wish to not be erased from the / picture. We wish to picture the erasure. The human earth and its appearance. / The human and its disappearance."
With a style that is fragmented and somewhat whirling--language dips and darts and asides are taken--Graham stays on point and presents an honest intellect at work, fumbling for an accurate understanding (or description) of the natural world, self-conscious about the limitations of language and perception. If you open and close your eyes
there should be a difference, no, in the way
the thing seen is--in its weight?--and then
what the thinking has begun to make ... because there is, on it, which we've
somehow
introduced, this wash which is duration....
("Philosopher's Stone") Never is a brilliant example of the struggle to preserve the physical, both in mind and in art. While this notion applies to all artistic endeavors, Graham's poems argue implicitly for preservation since our means of documentation are faulty. --Michael Ferch
Average Rating: 
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This is unreadable. Go find someting else. Quickly. Notice how the people who review this book are directly polarized - they love it or hate it. If you love Graham's stuff, go for it, you won't be disappointed. But if you're not a Graham fan stay away. If you're looking to read her for the first time, try Swarm, it's cleaner and more accessible.
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Her work is unreadable. It's too bad she abandoned what she had accomplished with Erosion so many years ago. She is good at convincing people of her importance and so no one will tell the truth about her work. If someone does, that person risks being thought of as a bad reader. But there is nothing to nourish the soul in her poems. Nothing to contemplate. They are not even interesting technically. The passionate defenses she generates always make me think of "protesting too much." Her work ... Read More
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In my judgment, Never could be one of Jorie Graham's most important books. It's amazing how she can write this way -- immediately accessible & still syntactically, linguistically, poetically, wholly innovative. Everything she writes by now is controversial, but never doubt her mastery. She revises her poems so many times people would be appalled, making sure that every bit of the music of her poems is exactly as she wants & that she has said & laid out everything she wants to say exactly. These ... Read More
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I can sing this poetry--Jorie Graham is the best at what she does.
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I have been trying to write something resembling a review of this book for a long time - during which time I have been living with and trying to absorb everything in NEVER, which is so much, and I still find it promising more even, than what I have from it already. The most immediate moment that presents itself in "Prayer" is the "here" of the now that is ghostly, yet audible somehow, still speakable, "posed," even on the lips. This "here" is just behind us as we read, and while it is lost in its instantiation ... Read More
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Dewey Decimal Number: 811
EAN: 9780060084721
ISBN: 0060084723
Label: Ecco
Manufacturer: Ecco
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: March 01, 2003
Publisher: Ecco
Release Date: March 04, 2003
Studio: Ecco