Me Comma You

By Kelly Le Fave

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1586852531
• ISBN13: 9781586852535
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Gibbs Smith
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Best New Poetry I Have Read This Year

There's a kind of cosmological humility mixed with rhetorical bravado in these poems that makes them a really wild read. A blurb on the back describes them as "landscape as prophecy." That's about right. From the microscopic detail of daily life one just zooms out into the infinite and crashes back into the body at every level--sensuous to cellular. It is really a wild feeling that I haven't gotten from any other poet. This is an original voice! In his introduction, Chris Merrill describes the vacillation between high and low diction in Le Fave's work as something that in the end produces a "religious" poetry. Frankly, I think that is completely wrong. Visions of Saints and other religious themes appear periodically throughout the book, but the way these images are seemingly ripped from the interstices of material life just put you in touch with the aspiration of existence (cf. her poem called "aspirations"). It is as if the eternal has been demystified and shown for what it is: the raw desire of everything for everything else. You are left not with some prayer for another life, but rather with a realization that everything here is all there is and it shimmers with everything that has been attributed to God. I may have this all wrong, but I think that's what she's doing. Anyway, there is something about this that is wildly original in a good way and I highly recommend it.