Being here the chemistry of startle
"In Barry Dempster’s "Being Here: The Chemistry of Startle", the poet travels the world, discovering all sorts of facts and truths, some of which had been buried deep inside himself for years. Whether it be the streets of Rio or New York; or posing for a snapshot beneath Berlin’s Bran...
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Okotoks, AB
Frontenac House Poetry
2022
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "In Barry Dempster’s "Being Here: The Chemistry of Startle", the poet travels the world, discovering all sorts of facts and truths, some of which had been buried deep inside himself for years. Whether it be the streets of Rio or New York; or posing for a snapshot beneath Berlin’s Brandenburg Gates; or fishing for carp in Estonia – through naming things a whole new world begins to take shape, only some of which will fit on a postcard. Being Here takes you to places where time itself has changed, like Dempster finding his Irish grandfather in the fields of a hundred years ago, coming this close to not making it home again. Some places are holes in the universe, but others demand participation: lay down next to Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s grave and feel how the earth stirs just a little or stare deeply into the eyes of a new friend as she explains how her recent divorce almost split rock. How adventurous it can be to take imaginary trips as well. As Paul Eluard said so brilliantly, I must not look on reality as being like myself. Who are you, Antoine de Saint Exupery or Christopher Walken? Look and listen, protect yourself from those lap-probing dogs, entice the swallows with the scent of sex still wafting from your skin, shop for coloured glasses with a besotted Pablo Neruda, walk on the inside of the Berlin Wall, track a fox to Central Park and find out what she wants once and for all. Hold on to heaven, then run as fast as you can from hell. Being Here, The Chemistry of Startle is almost impossible to fit into a beaker, but when it’s released into your bloodstream, you can’t help but feel like you belong."-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Poems |
| Beschreibung: | 84 Seiten 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781989466339 978-1-989466-33-9 1989466338 1-989466-33-8 |