DIASPORADIC contains a couple of the coolest "god" poems imaginable! Seyburn writes with joy and abundance. No time for dark misgivings are grumbling. This collection is a welcomed bridge to what is poetically possible.... and isn't that what we want from a book of poetry? More from Patty Seyburn!
very smart, very good
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
Seyburns first book astounds me because it doesn't seem like a first book. It feels like formal poetry even when it's not which to me means she's got incredible control of line and has a great ear. The topic is identity in this increasingly future-looking culture, but she also writes great love poems too. This would be a good book to spend some time with--the more I read, the more of her purpose, ideas and music are clear. READ THIS BOOK!
Welcome a New Voice in Poetry
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
Seyburn's intelligent and elegant poems dance to a dual rhythm; they are serious and playful, contemplative and propulsive, formal and casual, idea-driven and language-driven. At the heart of her work she puzzles with the invention of self--the self that because of its steady streamof losses, cultural and personal, must remakeitself out of history's rubble over and overagain. A post-Holocaust, Post-Modern Jewish woman, this poet negotiates her particularshoals of Diaspora--space of not-home, not-safety,not-knowing--and comes up with original andstriking ways of shaping experience. A marvelous debut.
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