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Bestiary
Author | : Elise Paschen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : |
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"The ... third volume from Paschen ... pursues the likenesses between human beings and other sorts of beasts: Paschen watches domestic animals, visits zoos and backyards, and records the instincts that animate her, as lover, mother, daughter and citizen. Husband and wife “share a wedded habitat”; a mother breastfeeding her daughter “would like to buzz / into the orchid of your ear,” while a manatee looks to the poet like “a mistaken mermaid, / on the brink of vanishing from sight.” Paschen offers sonnets, villanelles and even a ghazal, in which butterflies in an exhibit “invent a sky beneath the dome.” Readers might remember not the moments of pure description, but the difficult emotions Paschen describes in her poems about marital love, motherhood and finally a daughter’s grief. The urn with her father’s ashes dominates one poem, and her mother’s career as a ballet dancer takes over another: “Mother, when I was young, I watched / you from the wings and saw the sweat,” Paschen writes, saw “your gasp / for breath. I thought it was your last.” If we are animals, Paschen suggests, we are the animals who look hard at one another, the animals who remember and who mourn"--From Publisher's weekly, January 2009.
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