“The poet resolves every aspect of the human life must be lived to the extreme—a sort of radical “not dying” that should constitute existence…”
A little while back I wrote an extensive review of poet Dorothea Lasky’s Thunderbird which was released about a year ago. Due to a “double booking” error, the review never found a home, thus I will gladly relegate it to my website. Perhaps some diehard poetry (or Dorothea Lasky) lover will stumble across it!
In Thunderbird, Dorothea Lasky is not afraid of employing the simplest language achievable. The poet is acutely honest and frank, harboring few reservations with a near childlike colloquialness—the calculated naivete of a poet who knows she’s said too much and meant to. Sophistication and adornment are cast aside in favor of the conversational. Her lines are short and to the point, sometimes consisting of but one word, such as “no” and “yes,” a…
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