Comments | thewronghands: [Book Reviews] "Soirbheas/Fair Wind"

thewronghands

[Book Reviews] "Soirbheas/Fair Wind"

Mar 28, 2015 13:49

Hello, Internet! I have just finished savoring the first book of a new-to-me delightful poet, Meg Bateman. (Yes, still the book of poetry that I bought when Mayhem was changing our tire on Harris.) Her "Soirbheas/Fair Wind"is a marvelous eye, a song of aging and loss, gentleness and discovery as old things pass away, having touched the world as ( Read more... )

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arielstarshadow March 28 2015, 21:50:56 UTC

Damn - wish this was available as an Ebook. I'd put it on my Kindle, for my time in Moldova.

thewronghands March 28 2015, 22:06:10 UTC

The next one, "Transparencies", is! We can compare notes on it once we're both done.

arielstarshadow March 28 2015, 22:49:54 UTC

Do you have a link? I'm not finding it :/

thewronghands March 28 2015, 23:04:29 UTC

http://smile.amazon.com/Transparencies-Meg-Bateman-ebook/dp/B00E78RK86/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&colid=1WX33T11BFW4M&sr=&qid=&coliid=I2HKN5WZID5INU

gows March 29 2015, 04:22:47 UTC

Hoo, boy. I've a Someone this makes me think of.

that reality and poetic truth are not the same.

thewronghands March 29 2015, 04:36:57 UTC

She's really excellent... that was a fortunate tire failure that led me to her work, heh. And coming from a long line of Irish storytellers, I've done a fair bit of struggling with that last, from "feels true" to the windows of subjectivity we each hold on the world to the vagrancies of selectively remembered history to the deliberate propaganda which passes into myth. It's really changed the way that I interact with art, since I (think I) am wiser and more aware of my own smaller-than-I'd-like perspective than I used to be.