Wake

By Bin Ramke

Throughout Bin Ramke's book of poems, certain elements recur insistently: birds and boyhood, betrayal, and longings that careen between flesh and faith. The poet does not pretend to offer wisdom but... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877456585
• ISBN13: 9780877456582
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 130 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Ramke is all about flow.

Some would say that the American Avant-garde is dead, especially in the more academic poets. Yet, Ramke creates a dialogue between the peoms as the poet envisions them, the works that inspired the poems, the language itself, and the reader. Although not as radical or obscure as collage poets like Charles Olson or d.a. levy, Ramke words are sandwiched and juxtaposed by quations and allusions. The result is a center freedom and flow that manifest in his poems, especially in "The Ruined World and "Testimony." Ramke also does what few poets have done well in the past decade or so, write peoms that break three and four pages and still sustain. Although, the shorter lyric of his earlier work still makes a wonderful splash in this collection--see " & the War in France" and "How Light is Spent"--the power of this collection is in the longer poems.