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Loop
By the author of Light Falls Through You and the novel Canterbury Beach
In Loop , Anne Simpson explores the power, and the anguish, of many different modes of return – retrieval, revision, the covering of old ground with eyes wider and thoughts reconditioned by difficult wisdom. These poems occur at that place where a focused, compassionate vision comes to inhabit language and to find the forms that will a Möbius strip poem that loops back on itself; a crown of sonnets that take us back to the shock and grief of the twin towers and find deep resonance with paintings by Brueghel; a set of quick improvisations like the motion studies done for a drawing class. Simpson’s work shows us, again and again, the insight and excitement that come from the practice of a necessary craft in the service of a committed vision.
In Loop , Anne Simpson explores the power, and the anguish, of many different modes of return – retrieval, revision, the covering of old ground with eyes wider and thoughts reconditioned by difficult wisdom. These poems occur at that place where a focused, compassionate vision comes to inhabit language and to find the forms that will a Möbius strip poem that loops back on itself; a crown of sonnets that take us back to the shock and grief of the twin towers and find deep resonance with paintings by Brueghel; a set of quick improvisations like the motion studies done for a drawing class. Simpson’s work shows us, again and again, the insight and excitement that come from the practice of a necessary craft in the service of a committed vision.
- GenresPoetry
104 pages, Paperback
First published March 25, 2003
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April 19, 2019
An unsettled but liberal spirit permeates and inspires Simpson’s achievement of her craft in these poems.
Well done indeed!
Since I "really ⭐⭐⭐⭐ enjoyed" Simpson’s poetic style here, I must now go find the copy of Canterbury Beach that I know is in my TBR mountain of books, to see how she approaches a story with her prose.
Well done indeed!
Since I "really ⭐⭐⭐⭐ enjoyed" Simpson’s poetic style here, I must now go find the copy of Canterbury Beach that I know is in my TBR mountain of books, to see how she approaches a story with her prose.
February 21, 2008
Trailer Park.
September 29, 2010
This a book a definitely I want to own and read again. It's not a surprise that this book won the Griffin Prize for poetry.
February 24, 2014
I will read this again, slowly, just to savour every word. Loved "Trailer Park" and "Lot's Wife."
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