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Hymn
John Barton
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Éditeur:
Brick Books
Brick Books
Protection:
Filigrane
Filigrane
Année de parution:
2009
2009
ISBN-13:
9781926829302
Description:
<p><strong>A journey in search of love through the contemporary homoerotic male body.</strong></p>
<p>Improvising on a variety of poetic forms and traversing disparate landscapes - from Belfast to the clear-cuts of Vancouver Island, from the subterranean heat of Jules Verne's Iceland to the ventriloquism of the Alberta Rockies' echoing eastern slopes - John Barton documents the path of the male body in an increasingly unstable, supposedly tolerant contemporary world. <em>Hymn</em> stokes the fires of homoerotic romantic love with its polar extremes of intimacy and solitude.</p>
<p>...though he files all forethought of the unknown life now going</p>
<p>on without him, a life he confuses with his own, his life promiscuous<br />
however rearranged his surfaces or clean his drawers, the unclarifying</p>
<p>distractions of the body portentous in his downfall, the downfall<br />
of his own body a matter of time, but thinking of the man who left</p>
<p>the accidental man come between them, the man he may yet become<br />
it is impossible for him not to sing them unwashed hymns of praise.</p>
<p>- from "Hymn"</p>
<p>"It would be easy to describe <em>Hymn</em> as a collection of dream recitations, of flights on magic carpets and crashes through bewitched mirrors-except for the fact that Barton is an eyes-wide-open, no-prisoners kind of guy. He misses nothing, not even when he's asleep. This is not dreamy poetry (anybody can do that) but poetry that asks us to dream in the bald daylight, shows us how to look lovingly at both the squalor and the garden paths beneath our feet." - R.M. Vaughan</p>
<p>Improvising on a variety of poetic forms and traversing disparate landscapes - from Belfast to the clear-cuts of Vancouver Island, from the subterranean heat of Jules Verne's Iceland to the ventriloquism of the Alberta Rockies' echoing eastern slopes - John Barton documents the path of the male body in an increasingly unstable, supposedly tolerant contemporary world. <em>Hymn</em> stokes the fires of homoerotic romantic love with its polar extremes of intimacy and solitude.</p>
<p>...though he files all forethought of the unknown life now going</p>
<p>on without him, a life he confuses with his own, his life promiscuous<br />
however rearranged his surfaces or clean his drawers, the unclarifying</p>
<p>distractions of the body portentous in his downfall, the downfall<br />
of his own body a matter of time, but thinking of the man who left</p>
<p>the accidental man come between them, the man he may yet become<br />
it is impossible for him not to sing them unwashed hymns of praise.</p>
<p>- from "Hymn"</p>
<p>"It would be easy to describe <em>Hymn</em> as a collection of dream recitations, of flights on magic carpets and crashes through bewitched mirrors-except for the fact that Barton is an eyes-wide-open, no-prisoners kind of guy. He misses nothing, not even when he's asleep. This is not dreamy poetry (anybody can do that) but poetry that asks us to dream in the bald daylight, shows us how to look lovingly at both the squalor and the garden paths beneath our feet." - R.M. Vaughan</p>
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